1. Most of the time when photographers took pictures in foreign lands (outside of the west)
and of the natives, they portrayed them to be very exotic people as well as exotic places.
Most photographers aimed to show how lush the lands were, and use the wo
Using the knowledge framework to explore history
An effective way to explore the different areas of knowledge is to use what the IB is referring
to as a knowledge framework. This gives you five different consideration points, so you can
think further abou
History 3: Is there such a thing as truth in history?
Source 1: A drawing by Norman Lindsay in 1916, and widely used by British newspapers
during the First World War:
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Source 2: Adapted from a story reported by the Daily Telegraph, September 1990. The
in
Key questions in history
1. What is history?
2. Why does history have such a special place
in TOK?
3. What are the aims of the historian?
4. Why is history subject to continual
reinterpretation?
5. Is there such a thing as truth in history?
1. What is his
History 1: What is historys place in TOK?
1. What is history?
2. How does it differ from the past? Give examples and say why this is important to get
right!
3. What is the idealistic view of history?
4. What is the sceptical view of history?
5. Why does h
History 2. Challenges to the historian: selective
evidence and bias
a. Initial questions
Why do historians have to select their evidence, and what are the implications of this?
Why is history subject to bias, and what are the effects of this?
Is selective
Stephen Pinker on violence in
history
Stephen Pinker
Canadian/American
psychologist and linguist
born in 1954
Works at Harvard
University
One of the most
famous scientists in
the world
Ideas:
Believes that the mind has evolved to deal with
problems pr
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Terms/Definitions/Questions
Decisive moment: The simultaneous recognition in a fraction of a second of the significance of
an event as well as a precise organization of forms which gave that event its proper expression.
Leica I:
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Week 8
Cold war: was an arms race between communist Soviet Union and the United states, to see who
was truly the superpower when dealing with nuclear weapons. The war lasted from about 1945
until the Berlin wall was taken down.
P
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Week 6 terms and definitions
Modernism: A period in art where artists abandoned historical subject matter and illusionism in
favor of portraying contemporary events and experimental representation.
Aesthetic formalism: emphasizi
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Midterm revision
Slides:
2 The artist was James Nachtwey who titled the word Ruins of Kabul Afghanistan in 1996.
The photograph shows the look straight down a completely destroyed street. You can see the
buildings that you to stand there
History 6: recent history real life situations and
knowledge questions
Judging the past
AoKs/WoKs: Ethics, history
KQs: To what extent should we pass moral judgement on actions made in the past? Is it
possible to construct moral principles that transcend
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