Upgrading a History Classroom to a Social Science Lab
Do we learn anything from success stories? You would agree that we do. You must have also heard that we learn from our mistakes and failures. But it is not necessary that we commit all the mistakes or face all the failures in order to learn from them. We can learn from other's success, failure or mistakes. We can even learn from unknown people's story provided their journey is documented or told to us in some form. This kind of learning can help us in making wise decisions in our life. Further, imagine, the number of case studies to learn from if we know the stories across several centuries. Here, history comes in the picture. Even the origin of the word "history" explains the real purpose of this subject. Source of reference: Oxford Languages, Oxford University Press Thus, the purpose of history is to make a person wise through investigation, inquiry or historical narrative. We can now go to a real world school scenario to identify if history education meets its pur
