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

that produs th ADB, pointd out
univrsity
following.
th
whn you’v n running
“Invitaly
60 yars, … th arlist work will
for
out of dat, and spially
somtims
in rlation to th Indignous xprin
so
dispossssion and violn … [th ADB
of
is dolonising a projt whos
tam]
li in an ra for most whit
origins
wr prpard to fa what thy
Australians
thir anstors had don to Aoriginal
and
(Bongiorno quotd in Daly 2019)
popl.”
task of updating th ADB has larly
Th
lmnts of historial rvisionism.
rognizal
th anthropologist Mary Douglas
Howvr,
has argud that ‘history’ is mrly a
(1986)
of th past, as sn through th lns of
rfltion
prsnt. Oftn, Douglas suggsts, th pross
th
rvisionism says mor aout th prsnt than
of
dos aout th past.
it
on whn and whthr rvisionism is
Prsptivs
suspt, valual or futil ar xplord
nssary,
yars sin th mid-20th ntury hav
Th
markd y th aftrmath of war as wll
n
gloal transformations. During
asprofound
th writing and tahing of history has
thistim
wovn togthr with pa-uilding, nation-
n
and roniliation fforts. Amid this
uilding
th rol and approahs tohistorial
akdrop,
hav hangd dramatially, spially
knowldg
trms of its us for intrnational undrstanding
in
duating forpa.
and
has n oth a sholarly as wll as a
This
projt, for th way w know th
politial
has impliations for th shard futur. In
past
ontxt of national shool systms, shool
th
txtooks hav a wid and authoritativ
history
and ar instrumnts of olltiv idntity-
rah
Espially in puli shool systms,
uilding.
txtooks dfin vnts of national prid,
history
th ADB will rquir mor than
Dolonizing
gndr and thni divrsity to th ntry
adding
Th projt of updating prolmati
pool.
ntris is qually if not mor
xisting
ut prsnts signifiant hallngs
important,
intrsting TOK impliations) for th
(with
To find out mor, follow th link to an
tam.
y Paul Daly.
artil
trms: Australian
Sarh
of Biography
Ditionary
vitimhood and historial rlations of
olltiv
and hostility.
rivalry
haptr will hav mad lar that history
This
invitaly slt, omit, rarrang,
txtooks
and simplify from th tras w hav
intrprt
of th past. Whn ths txtooks ar stat-
lft
in national shool systms, thir
santiond
sltions, omissions, arrangmnts,
partiular
and simplifiations om
intrprtations
for most—not dissimilar to th
authoritativ
oxs” w nountr in Chaptr 7.
“lak
or opprssd groups within th stat or
Minority
stats may s ths aounts as iasd and
othr
For ths rasons, history txtooks
manipulativ.
n at th ntr of ontrovrsis—and
hav
historians and politiians alik
duators,
thir potntial to promot pa, as wll
rogniz
prptuat, or vn provok, onflit.
as
thr is muh to larnd from
Thrfor,
losly at ilatral or multilatral txtook
looking
projts in onflit and post-onflit
rvision
spially for pa- and frindship-
ontxts,
Suh projts ar oftn ondutd in th
uilding.
of raking down prjudi and inspiring
spirit
undrstanding twn formr or urrnt
mutual
or nmis. Th tahing of history
hostils
a tool for intrnational undrstanding
oms
paful futur rlations.
and
of this inlud powrful historial
Exampls
suh as th nd of aparthid in
vnts
Afria and th work of th Truth and
South
Commission; th rsptiv
Roniliation
II. Perspectives
II. Perspectives
history for th forgottn
low.
II.3 International understanding and
the revision of history textbooks
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