Challenges and Obstacle of Outdoor Learning of History Education to enhance the Historical Thinking Skills

Abstract

Learning of History is being highlighted and need to be implemented among students since they are in primary schools. Based on past surveys and articles, History is mainly being a subject which rarely focused by students due to more facts to be remembered and known as a boring subject. For a better upgrade in education system, History subject can be taught based on Outdoor Learning activities which could enhance the historical thinking skills among the students. The purpose of this paper is to get to know the challenges and obstacles of Outdoor Learning of History Education to improves the Historical Thinking Skills, have fun and enjoyable learning of History Education among the students, encourage the students to study Historical Education, improve and level up the understanding of the students on Historical Thinking Skills based on Outdoor Learning in History Education and to enhance the development of self-learning in Historical Education. This paper discussed about the introduction, problem statement, importance of implementing the Outdoor Learning of History Education, discussions and conclusions. This paper provides further understanding of the issues and the ways to overcome the obstacles of Outdoor Learning of History Education to mainly enhance the Historical Thinking Skills. We aim to highlight where research has produced some ideas on overcoming the challenges and obstacles that can help to implement the Outdoor Learning in History Education so that it could enhance the Historical Thinking Skills.

Keywords

challenges, obstacle, outdoor learning, history education, historical thinking skills

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.32698/GCS.0168