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

what is taught”, says Otl. It is a
as
of rprsntation and rlvan.
qustion
nd to s thmslvs in thir
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and hav tahrs who spak
tahrs,
Th RHS rport found vidn of an
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gap in trms of th numr
attainmnt
studnts of olour who graduat
of
th highst distintion. “Studnts
with
vry lar that th sujt nds
wr
mad mor rlvant to thm …
to
ar ompltly and uttrly put off
thy
th urriulum whih thy s as
y
dominatd y Eurontrism and
havily
in vry, vry damaging ways.”
whitnss
Qurshi alls it “asolutly shoking”
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“a national disgra” that it took
and
2018 for th first fmal lak
until
of history to appointd
profssor
th UK, following Hakim Ali who
in
2015am th first lak history
in
Qurshi argus that “for
profssor.
of history that hav
moststudnts
this sujt at univrsity,
vrrad
hav nvrn taught y a lak
thy
… or a profssor of olor”. To
profssor
why Qurshi mphasizs
undrstand
hr, ovr gndr, onsidr thatin
ra
UK th first fmal profssor of any
th
was appointd 100 yars ago,
sujt
th first lak fmal profssor
whras
any sujt was appointd only
of
ago.
20yars
disussion fouss on th rol of idntity
This
th aquisition of historial knowldg.
in
of argumnts that support th
Think
aout idntity that follows, thn
statmnt
of argumnts that ontradit it. If you
think
working with a partnr, on of you ould
ar
th othr “against”. If you ar in a
and
split into two opposing tams for this.
group,
plays a diffrnt rol in history as
“Idntity
to th othr AOKs.”
ompard
Th onvrsation twn Olivtt Otl
1.
Sadiah Qurshi lavs us with th
and
that divrsity in history is
imprssion
than in othr filds on avrag.
wors
fators afft whthr a givn
Whih
is ttr al to addrss issus
disiplin
Ar th impliations of a lak of divrsity
2.
for th various AOKs?
diffrnt
issus of divrsity and quity ar
Whil
to all ommunitis, profssional
important
ing no xption, divrsity has
historians
impliations for history as a ody of
rursiv
As stion III will show, historians
knowldg.
sk out divrs sours in
intntionally
historial aounts. How thn is th
onstruting
of history srvd y a lak of divrsity
ojtivity
profssional historians? To xplor this
among
w turn to th idas of E.H. Carr,
qustion,
to us y his grat-granddaughtr Hln
rought
who tras th volution of his thinking
Carr,
ojtivity. Carr was onrnd with how
aout
historian frquntly draws not on ojtiv fat
a
History of Soviet Russia was a bold attempt
A
and meticulously to collect all the facts
carefully
and in doing so, [E.H. Carr] articulated
available,
impressively objective approach to Russian
an
… In the lengthy process of writing A History
history.
Soviet Russia he … was initially optimistic; ‘it is
of
to maintain that objective truth exists’, yet
possible
1950 he concluded: ‘objectivity does not exist’.
by
historians believed in objective
Nineteenth-century
… Carr rejected this outdated approach,
history
II. Perspectives
II. Perspectives
aout a history that mattrs to thm.
of divrsity?
II.1 Diversity and histories
ut on thir xprin.
For discussion
The role of identity
describing it as a ‘preposterous fallacy’.
(Carr 2019)
prsnt a as arguing “for” th statmnt
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