Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Understanding how students perceive learning world history through historical texts is an underdeveloped area of research in the field of history education. As such, this study investigated how secondary students perceive learning world history as content of Araling Panlipunan (AP) through historical texts. This study employs an exploratory sequential mixed-methods design involving 123 junior high school students to determine their perceptions of using historical texts in studying world history as a content area of AP. Semi-structured interviews and surveys were administered to obtain data about their perceptions of historical texts in their classes. Findings show that perceptions of the use of historical texts are influenced by the content and layout of the reading material, how these texts are utilized in class, and students' interest in and perceived relevance of the text's content. Building on this, the development and use of historical texts must be carefully undertaken to achieve positive results.
Source: The Normal Lights
Authors: Angelo Serrano, Gimelyn Luminate, Lei Anne Yap, Nikolee Marie Serafico-Reyes
Institution: Philippine Normal University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4411355134