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KQs for History, Making connections to the core theme, History, - Coggle…
KQs for History
Scope
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• Why does history enjoy a privileged position as its own dedicated area of knowledge in the TOK curriculum? •
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• Is certainty about the past more difficult to attain than certainty about the present or the future?
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Perspective
• If it is difficult to establish proof in history, does that mean that all versions are equally acceptable?
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• How might the existence of different historical perspectives be beneficial to historical knowledge?
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• How can we gauge the extent to which history is being told from a cultural or national perspective?
• Are we more prone to particular cognitive biases (such as hindsight bias) in some disciplines and areas of knowledge rather than others?
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Methods and tools
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• If our senses are sometimes unreliable, does this mean that eyewitness testimony is an unreliable source of evidence?
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• Is there less emphasis on collaborative research in history than there is between researchers in other areas of knowledge?
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Ethics
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• Should terms such as “atrocity” or “hero” be used when writing about history, or should value judgments be avoided?
• Do historians have a moral responsibility to try to ensure that history is not misused and distorted by people for their own ends?
• On what criteria could we decide whether people in the past have a right to privacy in the present?
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