Pendidikan Sejarah untuk kehidupan abad ke 21

Abstract

This article dealt with the issue of History Education which is fundamental in preparing the young generation for their future lives, namely the future which coloured by the development of 21st-century technology. The issue emerges because history education material is conventionally related to historical events’ study, that is the past’s event that reconstructed by historians based on information availability. History’s events are things that are considered completed, unrepeated, and specific. Whereas, the present life is past life’s continuation and retains into future life with many repetitions on general matters. In this article, it stated that in order to prepare the young generation for their present’s lives and in the future. We need changes in objectives, material, learning processes, and history education’s outcomes learning assessment are needed. The concept that underlies the industrial revolution and the life presented in history is change. And therefore history education is required in develope study’s ability addressing changes in the past, the ongoing, and the upcoming events by developing 21st-century skills such as curiosity, critical, the ability to cooperate and communicate. These abilities require history learning’s elaboration material that is not only about events but past experiences and their changes as well as enriches Indonesian’s history events with local history’s events. The learning process needs to apply the Scientific Learning Experience or 5M while the assessment based on the Documentary-based Question and SOLO Taxonomy model which of recommended.