INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WITH DR FIONA FOR THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE REAL LIFE PROJECT WORLD HISTORY.docx

2
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WITH DR FIONA FOR THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE REAL LIFE PROJECT ON 16 TH DECEMBER 2014 1. How Does A Historian Work? 2. Do you have problems with Bias and Selection in obtaining True Facts? 3. What Is The limitation in obtaining the facts? 4. How important is peer review and consensus among fellow historians to achieve a certain conclusion 5. In constructing the past, how significant is Imagination as a way of knowing? 6. How does language help or hinder the interpretation of historical facts 7. To what extent is collective memory is reliable in narrating history 8. What role does logic and reason play when organizing historic events into cause-effect relationships 9. Can different emotions about a certain historic event lead to different conclusions about the event 10. What is the methodology in working as a historian

Transcript of INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WITH DR FIONA FOR THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE REAL LIFE PROJECT WORLD HISTORY.docx

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS WITH DR FIONA FOR THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE REAL LIFE PROJECT ON 16TH DECEMBER 2014

1. How Does A Historian Work?2. Do you have problems with Bias and Selection in obtaining True Facts?3. What Is The limitation in obtaining the facts?4. How important is peer review and consensus among fellow historians to achieve a certain conclusion5. In constructing the past, how significant is Imagination as a way of knowing? 6. How does language help or hinder the interpretation of historical facts 7. To what extent is collective memory is reliable in narrating history 8. What role does logic and reason play when organizing historic events into cause-effect relationships 9. Can different emotions about a certain historic event lead to different conclusions about the event 10. What is the methodology in working as a historian11. Can you provide us some insight about your research?

*We may add more questions to the question pool during the day of the interview*