Psychohistory in History Education: Between Urgency and Problems

Abstract

Psychohistory is the study of motivation. Learning history in this postmodernist era should not only emphasize patriotism or nationalism. Learners should be more critical and concerned about the inner feelings of fellow humans across time to become moral human beings for the present and the future, without abandoning nationalism and patriotism. The concept of history and psychology or psychohistory can be an important approach to finding out the nature of previous human beings and what the after-effects of this nature are for the level of historical events. This research is a literature study that uses book sources and scientific articles that are relevant and certainly theoretical and empirical. The purpose of this article is to break the old habits by juxtaposing psychology without leaving nationalism through history learning. This article presents the definition, historiography of the psychohistory approach, urgency for students, challenges and contradictions as well as solutions, and manifestations of psychohistory in the classroom.