Discussing About The Tacit Knowledge Of History Teaching In High School

Tacit knowledge of history, coming from the activities of historical teaching and learning, is not only history knowledge which is hard to speak out clearly and certainly in words, pictures and charts,such as experience of teaching or learning, inspiration, skill, habits, belief and so on, and they also is history knowledge and historical relationship hiding in history textbooks which is not expressed by explicit knowledge, such as background, reasons, conditions, goals, nature, influence and so on.At the same time, tacit knowledge was compared with explicit knowledge that is expressed by definite knowledge, and they which make up all of history knowledge, but explicit knowledge was rooted in tacit knowledge, and on the contrary, tacit knowledge could be exchanged into explicit knowledge. Tacit knowledge, according to different carriers, lied in textbooks or people, but according to effectiveness, they would be valid or invalid. They were of individual differences, uncertainty, normalization, practice and society, in addition,plentiful tacit knowledge were produced in the process of teaching and learning of history, the reasons why were requirements from course content, teaching goals and the College Entrance Examination,restrictions from social environment and teachers, effects from cognition development level, internalization of history knowledge and socialculture. Taking prosperous but short-term Sui dynasty as an example, the writer put forward to primary methods about how to exploit historical tacit knowledge during teaching, which consisted of ways of developing tacit knowledge from students and teachers, and steps of exchanging tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge. For realizing teaching effectively, changing views of historical knowledge of teachers, and claiming creation of historical knowledge and share of high-quality resources, history teachers need to develop tacit knowledge of history and change these to explicit knowledge, in base of following some principles such as caring for students firstly, being effective, being normal, being practical, that will be good for developing innovative thinking of students and promoting professionalization of teachers, and lay foundation of building platform of knowledge innovation and share of resource.