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

It is desirable that in every country a committee composed of members of the teaching profession, including
3.
teachers, should be set up by the National Committee on Intellectual Co-Operation… .” (League of
history
(a) Whos prsptivs influn what
1.
fats ar taught in shools?
historial
th rol of th govrnmnts,
Considr
history tahrs’ unions,
national
tahrs’ assoiations,
intrnational
ivi organizations,
domsti
non-govrnmntal
transnational
and othrs.
organizations
(b) How should this influn hkd
2. What ar th impliations whn:
xprts from anothr stat ar allowd
(a)
influn how history is taught in a
to
tim, th sop of ths projts has
Ovr
from ilatral to rgional and gloal
shiftd
with th rsult that thir produt is
fforts,
aout national “ompromis narrativs”
lss
allow for alignd ut sparat historis,
whih
mor aout a “ommon” shard history.
and
prsptivs ar gaind or lost in a shard
What
txtook vrsus a national history
history
Whr do your history txtooks fit
txtook?
shm?
inthis
did th moral imprativs and standards
How
ths projts aris? Or, as Simon Lässig
for
“Who initiatd, inspird and arrid out
asks,
projts? … what is th natur of th tnsion
th
intervention and empowerment with rgard
twn
history duation rform …?” (Korostlina,
to
2013). Lässig uss th word “mpowrmnt”
Lässig
to dsri loal ownrship of th outoms of
hr
projts, of th popl whos history is ing
ths
in thos projts. Th alan twn
rwrittn
xprts from anothr stat ar not
(b)
to influn how history is
allowd
and th stat has a monopoly on
taught
gts taught in th national history
what
(a) In trms of th history urriulum,
3.
what irumstans should
undr
historian and history tahrs'
th
limitd?
autonomy
Dos th tahing of history rquir
(b)
or diffrnt ontrols to th
additional
mpowrmnt and xtrnal intrvntion
loal
influns whthr th projt will
ultimatly
would suss look lik? If th mtri is
What
it rsults in a txtook that is offiially
whthr
and shard y two or mor ountris,
santiond
w hav rlativly fw suss storis, and
thn
oms mor ompliatd whn
This
projts ar initiatd, fundd or
rvisionist
y third partis, suh as othr
supportd
stakholdrs and NGOs. For
intrnational
th Southast Europan Joint
xampl,
Projt produd a st of “altrnativ
History
matrials”, and on projt in
duational
East Asia rsultd in txtooks that
North
not offiially santiond ut wr usd to
wr
national txtooks in China, South
omplmnt
II. Perspectives
II. Perspectives
Nations 1937)
Disuss th following qustions.
urriulum?
and ontrolld?
tahing of othr sujts?
givn national duation systm
“sussful”.
Histoir-Gshiht is among thm.
Kora and Japan.
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