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

ak through th rif ovrviw of
Look
aov.
history
What has n th alan twn dirt
1.
ontxtual auss of history?
and
How would you haratriz th mthods
2.
and prsptivs in, this ovrviw?
of,
At the frontier of conventional
III.4
historiography
th following xampls will show, history
As
not th isolatd disiplin that you might
is
it to , writtn y lonly historians,
imagin
through arhivs and sitting with thir
ploughing
Rathr, history shars porous oundaris
fats.
othr disiplins—psyhology, onomis,
with
politial sin and gography—and
soiology,
avnus of intrdisiplinary rsarh.
xiting
Klly Knowls has usd augmntd
Ann
gography to xamin th disastrous
historial
of Gttysurg during th Amrian
Battl
CivilWar.
trms: Smithsonian
Sarh
of Gttysurg Rort
Battl
Knowls usd nhand mapping
Partiularly,
y softwar usd in th dfn and
aidd
gam industris to simulat what
vido
L and Gnral Longstrt would
Gnral
sn during th attl. Knowls likns
hav
to looking at th past through augmntd
this
glasss. It rvals what may hav ausd
3D
gnrals to mak th disions that rsultd
th
thousands of asualtis, qustions that hav
in
Civil War historians vr sin.
apturd
onsidring Gnral L's vantag
Whn
from th top of th Luthran Sminary,
point
mthodologis ar dply rlvant to TOK
Suh
th sparation of disiplins, inluding
aus
roadr sparation of aras of knowldg, is
th
in th first pla.
ontstal
rmains of th past was xplord in
What
Hr, in Box 9.5, w onsidr how Ann
III.1.
Knowls usd advand mapping and
Klly
asd on satllit imagry and
modlling,
softwar, to simulat th Battl of
military
and xamin what may hav
Gttysurg
Gnral L and Gnral Longstrt to
ausd
th disions thy did. This is an ovious
mak
of how thnology has oth rast
xampl
historial qustions and providd
traditional
tools to answr thm. It has also rought
nw
opportunitis to ring disiplins togthr,
nw
as historial gography, a rih and ativ
suh
in its own right. Thnology also has
disiplin
inrasing rol in intrativ transmission
an
historial knowldg, for xampl in virtual
of
that draw on psyhology, ognitiv
xhiitions
and history.
sin
vn fators in th xtra inhs of
Knowls
affordd y L’s oots. “W an’t
sightlin
for th haz and smok of attl in
aount
though in thory you ould with gaming
GIS,
hav long datd L’s disions at
Historians
Gttysurg.
ould suh an xptional
“How
xprt in rading trrain,
ommandr,
to rogniz th attak would a
fail
Th traditional xplanation,
disastr?
in partiular y L admirrs,
favord
that his undrling, Gn. Jams
is
faild to proprly xut
Longstrt,
ordrs.” (Horowitz 2012)
L’s
analysis, asd on modlling what
Knowls’
mn ould s, shows that L ouldn’t
oth
what Longstrt was doing or what thir
s
(th Union) was doing. Manwhil,
nmy
saw what L ould not: Union
Longstrt
rady on th othr sid of opn trrain
troops
III. Methods and tools
III. Methods and tools
For reflection
Review the overview
Box 9.5: The Battle of Gettysburg in 3D
softwar” sh says (quotd in Horowitz 2012).
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