Pengembangan kreativitas imajinatif abad ke-21 dalam pembelajaran Sejarah

Abstract

This article was developed from the observation of the learning process carried out by the History teacher and students of the Field Experience Program (PPL) participants of the History Education Department, UPI, in one of the high schools in Bandung. History Learning aims to develop the imaginative abilities of students in the past about the past. For historians, imagination is the power to present the past to the time where the reader is. Historical Learning contains the delivery of a number of historical facts that will not produce imaginative abilities, but questions using the technique of “if history” or the technique of wishing to make students can imagine. Imagination can develop well if the teacher can facilitate students with imaginative historical material through a learning process that stimulates them to develop their imagination. Through imagination, students can be anyone or do anything (certainly good) in their memories, thoughts, images or hopes. Imagination is a thinking power that describes creativity. Historical imagination contains an element of empathy because the students above imagine to become a historical figure while empathizing with it.