Abstract:

This study analyzes the implementation of the Historical Thinking Learning Model to improve the interpretation of students participating in the course of social history with the matter of land (agrarian). As in other countries in Asia, the Indonesian government revises the history curriculum and offers an educational history to apply the critical-historical method. However, the reality of teaching history is identical to memorize facts without criticizing the stages of the method include the interpretation of history. These conditions provide the information, that the teaching of history depends upon the efforts and capacities of teachers. Through the study of the application in the classroom, this article offers a discourse on history teaching expectations in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.