Topic 3 Flashcards
The past, the narrative, the discipline
HISTORY
What actually happened in the past
EVENT
Historian’s interpretation of what happened
ACCOUNT OR NARRATIVE
Relation between time and place
EVENT
Relation between fact and truth
ACCOUNT OR NARRATIVE
ACCESSING THE PAST
- Through memory
- Through history
- Through relics
Is the theory of knowledge
EPISTEMOLOGY
Interpretations of the past by historians based on their critical study of the widest possible range of Relevant sources, every effort having been to challenge, and avoid the perpetuation of myth
HISTORY, THE NARRATIVE
FROM THE PAST TO THE NARRATIVE: DOING HISTORY
- Past
- Sources
- Inquiry based on sources
- Interpretation
- Historical knowledge
ISSUES IN HISTORY
- ONE PAST, MANY HISTORIES
- PERSONAL ELEMENT: HISTORY AN INDIVIDUAL’S CONSTRUCT
o History separated from the past by time and space
o Past remembered differently
o History re-created by historians, writers after the event
o Selectivity, historians’ points of view and interpretations
ONE PAST, MANY HISTORIES
o Historian’s POV influenced by his or her background and by society
o POV change or can harden
o Individual judgement of what is
interesting, worth studying
PERSONAL ELEMENT: HISTORY AN
INDIVIDUAL’S CONSTRUCT
Sense of being situated in history
HISTORICITY
Awareness of time and history
HISTORICITY
Realization of differences between past and present
HISTORICITY
Link between dual meanings of history
HISTORICITY
THINKING HISTORICALLY
- Chronological thinking: the mental scaffolding for organizing historical thought
- Historical comprehension
- Historical analysis and interpretation
- Historical research and capabilities
- Historical issue-analysis and decision-making
THINKING HISTORICALLY: STAIR LEVELS (bottom to top)
Fact
Sequence
Complexity
Interpretations
HISTORICAL COMPETENCIES
- SOURCE-BASED
- INTERPRETIVE
- COMMUNICATION
SOURCE-BASED
o Find sources
o Select sources
o Evaluate sources
o Find sources
o Select sources
o Evaluate sources
SOURCE-BASED
o See link between events and understand their context
o Build plausible, coherent argument using historical materials
INTERPRETIVE
o Write clearly and in an organized, coherent way
o Cite references accurately through quotations, footnotes, bibliography
COMMUNICATION
HISTORICAL ATTITUDES
- PERSONAL LEVEL
- INTELLECTUAL LEVEL
Importance of the past
PERSONAL LEVEL
Events do not happen in a vacuum
INTELLECTUAL LEVEL
Understand diverse cultures
PERSONAL LEVEL
Avoid anachronism when looking for the past
INTELLECTUAL LEVEL