• History’s Role in Policy Making: Proffering Solutions and Questions for Humanity and the Ghanaian Context

    Author(s):
    Samuel Adu-Gyamfi (see profile) , Edward Brenya, Daniel Owusu-Ansah
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Public Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Historiography, History
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Historical discourse analysis, History and theory of historiography
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/psge-6z35
    Abstract:
    Concerning history, several people across the globe perceive or think that it is mostly about past events and also about dead people. Some trained historians, whether in ancient histories or contemporary histories, have sometimes vehemently concluded that the historian or the writer of history cannot draw conclusions but he can only make inferences or better still ask questions. Such carefulness of the historian does not only add to his tactfulness but also makes the ordinary reader aiming at policy to rush for quick-fix information, ‘non-history’. To a large extent when the works of historians have been used by policy makers, they are not cited. They are used in a way that the ordinary reader or beneficiary might not have a clue that history had a part to play in the birthing of such policy. This history and policy essay gleans information from essential academic sources to push forward an argument for history’s role in policy making. It does look at some relevant questions for Ghana where the authors lecture in history and political studies.
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    Publisher:
    The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology, Agartala, India
    Pub. Date:
    June 2016
    Journal:
    Modern Research Studies: An International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
    Volume:
    3
    Issue:
    2
    Page Range:
    261 - 285
    ISSN:
    2349-2147
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    3 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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