{"id":5168,"date":"2021-12-03T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5168"},"modified":"2021-11-27T20:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T17:25:35","slug":"an-introduction-to-theory-of-knowledge-in-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/an-introduction-to-theory-of-knowledge-in-history\/","title":{"rendered":"An Introduction to Theory of Knowledge in History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">An Introduction to Theory of Knowledge in History<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[<a href=\"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/p\/TOK\">online multimedia lecture<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this 20-slide presentation, students are introduced to the concept that &#8220;Knowledge&#8221; in History consists not only of the selection of facts from an incomplete historical record, but the interpretation of those facts and of the gaps in that record by historians. There is also a detailed consideration of the role played by sense perception as a source of knowledge in History, complete with case studies focusing on the recent &#8220;statue wars&#8221; and other examples from public spaces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides-1024x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides-1024x365.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides-768x274.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides-1536x548.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides-600x214.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/slides.jpg 1698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Introduction to Theory of Knowledge in History [online multimedia lecture] In this 20-slide presentation, students are introduced to the concept that &#8220;Knowledge&#8221; in History consists not only of the selection of facts from an incomplete historical record, but the interpretation of those facts and of the gaps in that record by historians. There is&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/history-teachers\/an-introduction-to-theory-of-knowledge-in-history\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history-teachers"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3814,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/theory-of-knowledge-in-history-the-challenge-of-source-material\/","url_meta":{"origin":5168,"position":0},"title":"Theory of Knowledge in History: The Challenge of Source Material","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"May 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Session 1: Sources [student worksheet\u00a0|\u00a0teacher notes] Introduction: Why and How is History Produced? \"History\" is not \"What happened in the past\" or even \"The surviving evidence of what happened in the past\". 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