Kontribusi buku teks Sejarah dalam mengembangkan historical imagination peserta didik

Abstract

Student’s object of learning in History are past events and figures which mostly difficult to be understood or remembered, so to be able to visit and understand historical events student must be able to use their imagination. In order to develop student’s historical imagination, textbook can be use as a media or tool for learning. An interesting textbooks will help students to imagining what the past event and figures was like. Interesting textbook does not mean that the author have to get rid of standard rules by the government. The content of the textbook must be written in accordance with historical facts and curriculum, also complementary components such as illustration, layout, language style and many more must be adjusted with the criteria for developing Historical Imagination. The analysis of this paper highlight on three history textbooks from three different countries, Indonesia, South Korea and Brazil to see the comparisons focused on the explanation of the content or material and also the display of the textbook. The results show that South Korean history textbooks are more capable of stimulating students’ historical imagination when analyzed by various indicators, followed by Brazil and then Indonesia.  Chritical discourse analysis selected as a tool of analysis in this paper for the author to be able to get the deep analysis.  Chritical discourse analysis is one of the qualitative research approaches.