Presentation Planning Document

TK/PPD

Presentation planning document

Submit to: TOK teacher Arrival date: See below Session: November 2010

School number: 0 0 1 0 7 1

School name: The Friends’ School  Write legibly using black ink and retain a copy of this form.  Complete this form in the working language of your school (English, French or Spanish).  Do not send to IB Cardiff or to the moderator unless you have been instructed to do so. Retain the forms until after the publication of results

Candidate name: Tim Sprod

Candidate session number: 0 0 1 0 7 1 9 9 9

Please describe your planning for the presentation, either in the space below, or on an attached A4 word- processed page by completing 1, 2 and 3 below.

1. What is the real life situation under consideration?

The incident involving white stockmen and aboriginal people at Emu Bay on 21 August 1829.

2. What is the TOK knowledge issue that will be the focus of your presentation? (This must be expressed as a question.)

To what extent can we legitimately make ethical judgements about historical events?

3. Write a summary in note form (for example, a bullet point list), of the way you plan to deal with knowledge issues during your presentation).

Analyze the excerpt:  Can we tell what was true?  Bias in the writer? o Self serving- facing the law o Likely to be true/likely to be false? o Draw on reasoning, emotions, language  Bias in us? o Emotions o Hindsight o Different context - presuppositions for reasoning  Sources of other evidence o Available then, not now o Available now, not then

Ethical judgement  Based on whose ethics? o Present day (are these settled?) o Those of the white society of the time (how do we know?) o Those of the aboriginal society of time (how do we know?)  Putting wounded out of misery o Animals/humans o Reasons vs rationalizations  Fair to use present ethical standards?  Are present ethical standards right? o Absolute ethical standards o Relativist ethical standards

Conclusion  Try to understand those in past o Reasoning o Emotions and motivations o Different language use  Apply ethical standards o Strive for universal standards - make judgements, be aware of possible own bias o Show empathy and charity - mitigation