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History: What is the most effective way of learning history in school? In this talk, I argue that doing history is the most effective way of learning history – not just in school, but out of school and in life as well.

What is the most effective way of learning history in school? In this talk, I argue that doing history is the most effective way of learning history – not just in school, but out of school and in life as well. To that end, I suggest ways that educators could consider integrating the historian’s craft – a term that embodies every act of doing history – into the curriculum. Doing that might just allow interested students to learn not just what happened in the past, but also how that past can be constructed by those in the present using sources from that past.

Speaker: Dr. Srijan Sandip Mandal
Faculty Member, Center for Public History, Srishti
Institute of Art, Design and Technology
A historian by training and temperament, Dr Srijan Sandip Mandal specialises in legal history, especially the Constitution of India and the right to freedom of speech and expression enshrined therein. It was the subject of his PhD thesis at the University of Hyderabad, which was awarded the University’s annual prize for the “best PhD thesis” in History. What he is passionate about, though, is communicating the results of historical research to diverse audiences outside academia. That is why he is on the faculty of the Centre for Public History at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Bengaluru.