basree-rakijan

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

KERTAS SEJARAH MENENGAH 101

Bismillah….

Hari ini aku belajar Sejarah dan Kita dalam Bab 1 Sejarah Tingkatan 1. Bab ini pada asasnya memperkenalkan konsep sejarah secara keseluruhan. Para pelajar dikehendaki memahami:-

1) pengertian sejarah,
2) cirri-ciri sejarah,
3) sumber sejarah,
4) kaedah pengkajian sejarah,
5) pentafsiran sejarah,
6) kepentingan sejarah,
7) tujuan mempelajari sejarah
8) faedah mempelajari sejarah

Pengertian Sejarah

Sejarah berasal dari perkataan bahasa Arab, ‘Syajaratun’ yang bererti pohon, atau pokok, salasilah, riwayat, keturunan dan asal-usul. Pengertian sejarah seperti yang diberikan oleh ahli sejarah dari Tunisia iaitu Abdul Rahman Ibn Muhammad Ibn Khaldun atau Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406 Masehi) ialah:

“Sejarah membicarakan tentang masyarakat manusia atau peradaban manusia tentang perubahan-perubahan yang berlaku pada sifat-sifat kemasyarakatan.”

Herodorus, sejarawan Yunani pula berpendapat:

“Sejarah ialah penceritaan tentang tindakan manusia dan sebab-sebab mereka melakukannya.”

Seorang lagi ahli sejarah, Muhd Yusof Ibrahim pula berpendapat:

“Sejarah merupakan catatan ataupun rekod mengenai sesuatu peristiwa yang berlaku pada suatu masa yang lalu.”

Kesimpulannya, maksud sejarah ialah penyelidikan mengenai perkara-perkara yang telah berlaku.

Ciri-Ciri Sejarah

Fakta tepat dan benar:
Segala peristiwa, tokoh, tarikh dan tempat sejarah boleh dibuktikan,
Fakta sejarah tidak boleh ditokok tambah atau direka. Fakta sejarah boleh dipertanggungjawabkan kesahihannya,


Penting dan bermakna:
Kesan sejarah penting kepada kita, ahli keluarga, masyarakat dan Negara,

Mempunyai sebab dan akibat:
Sejarah mencari kebenaran tentang peristiwa masa lalu,
Perlu mengetahui sebab dan akibat sesuatu peristiwa, oleh itu perlu diketahui
apa, siapa, bila,di mana, mengapa, dan bagaimana sesuatu peristiwa berlaku?


Sumber Sejarah

Sumber sejarah terbahagi kepada dua:

Sumber Pertama – atau sumber primer, bahan asal belum diolah, bersifat asli & belum ditafsir, contohnya: fail rasmi jabatan, surat peribadi, diari, manuskrip belum dicetak dan batu bersurat.

Sumber Kedua – atau sumber sekunder, bahan diperolehi dari kajian bahan pembacaan dan bertulis, bahan ini datangnya dari sejarawan atau pengkaji sejarah, bahan sudah diolah, dicetak, dan disebarkan umum. Contoh: buku, majalah, jurnal, akhbar, ensiklopedia, laporan tahunan jabatan dan risalah.


Kaedah Pengkajian Sejarah

Tiga kaedah pengkajian sejarah ialah:

Kaedah Lisan – temu bual dengan tokoh, sejarawan, melalui ucapan, penceritaan, pengisahan dan perbualan. Kaedah ini memerlukan sejarawan memilih, mentafsir dan membuat perbandingan fakta bagi mencari kebenaran.

Kaedah lisan ada kelemahan seperti bercampur unsur dongeng, mitos dan lagenda.

Dengan perkembangan teknologi maklumat sejarah boleh didapati dari televisyen, internet, cakera padat, radio dan pita rakaman.

Kaedah Bertulis – kaedah ini mendapat maklumat dari sumber bertulis dan dilakar di atas batu, dinding gua, kulit kayu, daun kayu, logam, gading dan kertas.


Kaedah Arkeologi – maklumat yang diperolehi secara saintifik. Antara cabang arkeologi ialah angkasa lepas, maritim dan cari gali. Melalui kajian saintifik seperti pentarikhan radio karbon, ketepatan usia sesuatu bahan tinggalan (fosil, binaan dari batu, peralatan logam, tembikar dan kulit siput) dapat disahkan.

Pentafsiran Sejarah

Pentafsiran bermaksud ulasan atau kupasan ke atas peristiwa sejarah. Dengan tafsiran peristiwa sejarah menjadi bermakna, berfaedah atau sebaliknya. Sejarawan sentiasa ingin tahu sebab musabab sesuatu peristiwa berlaku. Penyelidikan diperlukan untuk mendapat maklumat sejarah yang betul dan tepat. Tafsiran sesuatu peristiwa sejarah yang sama mungkin berbeza antara sejarawan.

Perbezaan tafsiran ini disebabkan pandangan yang berbeza di kalangan sejarawan, asal usul dan latar belakang yang berlainan. Bias juga berlaku. Masalah juga dihadapi untuk mendapatkan maklumat yang benar dan tepat.

Kepentingan Sejarah

Tujuan mempelajari sejarah:

Menghargai jasa tokoh
Mendapat banyak pengetahuan
Memahami sejarah tamadun awal
Memupuk sikap berhati-hati

Faedah mempelajari sejarah:

Memberi iktibar
Perangsang kepada kemajuan Negara
Memupuk semangat patriotism


Taman Setiawangsa, Kuala Lumpur
13 November 2006

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Mathematics Class 101

Today I went back school book again. Mathematics Form 1 to be specific. After 31 years the obvious change is that my son is now studying maths in English. In 1975 I was in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bekok, Segamat. Mathematics was taught in Malay and called, "Ilmu Hisab"! I can't remember the fisrt chapter anymore but my son's book says "Whole Numbers".

After looking at the details, I notice the main objectives of this chapter are:
1) Counting, reading and writing whole numbers
2) Identifying the place values and the values of digits in whole numbers
3) Rounding off whole numbers
4) Performing combined operations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, including the use of brackets
5) Solving problems on combined operations involving addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of whole numbers, including brackets

This chapter should not pose any problem to me, I said. However, some of the terms used sound strange. For example,

a) In the number 48 376, what is the place value of 8?
b) What is the value of digit 4?

Answers:
a) Thousands
b) 40 000

Question:
a) Round off 86 152 to the nearest i) ten thousand, ii) thousand, iii) hundred

Answers:
a) i) 90 000
ii) 86 000
iii) 86 200

I look forward to my encounter with Class 102 next week - Number Patterns and Sequences...

Friday, November 10, 2006

We can do it, I told my son

My son passed to me his final term exam results last night. He was sad, worried and tired. From his face, I can see he started to feel nervous. He just got back from a rugby tournament, I was told by my daughter earlier. I did not expect anything drastic from him. He is not a straight A student from beginning. But I want him to improve because he is taking is PMR examinations next year.

As I was staring at his papers it becomes clearer why he was not comfortable. He had failed his dad. His mom… F9 in mathematics and science! What can I say? All sort of things went through my mind. Why? How? And what now?

I confronted him. “What is wrong with you in school?”. He did not say a word. I started to loose my temper and raised my voice. “What should YOU do now?”. “You have less than a year to back up” My wife came to cool me down. I lectured my son for one hour.

When I wake up this morning I can’t remember much what I said to him. And I don’t know if what I said make sense to him.

“No rugby!” I screamed.

“No Play Station!”

“No TV!”

“And if you think the piano lesson is so taxing, you can quit as well.”

“Don’t blame him alone”, said my wife. “We are part of the problems, how much time did we spend with him?

“Why can’t you sit with him an hour a day to help him before?” add my wife as she walked away to the kitchen.

As a father I am more worried than him. At least that how I see it. Maybe we (my wife and I) will have to change. I have to spend more time him now. Can we pull this through? At lunch today I took my wife to MPH and bought more revision books for him.

“This school break I will sit down and teach him myself!”, I said to my wife. But can I? I left secondary school in 1977. I have forgotten everything by now….

I can do it, I said to myself as I put the books in my car. I have to relearn again myself. And spend less time socializing. Starting from now…