Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

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This
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that
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has
dsrid hr, and through nw
prssur
in TOK, dos history qualify as an AOK
Why,
it is ordinarily a part of IB Diploma
whn
group 3? Us th following
Programm
as prompts for your disussion.
qustions
Is history an AOK aus of th sop
1.
its sujt mattr or aus knowing
of
is of spial importan to th
history
individual?
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Th
in history. Thr ar th high-lvl
manings
w xplor in vry
prsptivs—whih
what, in this as, history is and
AOK—on
to . On this topi, historians rflt
ought
thir osrvations and hops for thir own
on
Thn thr ar prsptivs on
disiplin.
history as oth a disiplin and a ody of
how
has hangd ovr tim, prsptivs
knowldg
om from not only historians ut also
that
a rsult, historial mthods hav volvd to
As
with a widr rang of sours, allowing nw
dal
to ntr into and nlarg th sop
prsptivs
inquiry. W xplor this in th nxt stion.
of
Is it th mthods of history that st it apart
2.
th knowldg produd in th othr
from
3. Why dos it mattr that history is an AOK?
ths qustions will xpos diffrnt
Disussing
and giv you an opportunity
prsptivs
pratis onstruting your own informd
to
answrs.
thorists and ritis who study
philosophrs,
dvlopmnt of knowldg and idas.
th
thr ar prsptivs on how historial
Finally,
is rivd and privd mor
knowldg
in soity, and prhaps this shows us
widly
grat plurality of prsptivs in this AOK.
th
fw popl would laim valu in having a
Whil
mathmatis or sin, many an and
prsonal
insist on thir prsonal and group historis.
do
osrvrs thus argu it is nssary to
Som
what is mant y history to knowldg
limit
y aadmi and profssional
produd
If so, w would hav to aount for
historians.
omissions and rasurs that om with that
th
partiularly in light of th rol of litray
laim,
history. in
nwomrs to th disiplin of history,
As
ar oftn initiatd with prisly
studnts
II. Perspectives
I. Scope
II. Perspectives
thnologis and intrdisiplinary ollaorations.
For discussion
Why is history an AOK?
AOKs?
I I . P E R S P E C T I V E S
Our picture of Greece in the fth century B.C. is
defective not primarily because so many of the bits
have been accidentally lost, but because it is, by and
large, the picture formed by a tiny group of people in
the city of Athens.
(E.H. Carr quoted in H. Carr 2019)
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