IB Diploma Programme: DP 2
Age Group: 17 to 18 years
Subjects: History HL/SL + ESS + TOK
Type: Advanced Historical Field Investigation Supporting IA and Extended Essay Development
Duration: Full-Day Comparative Power and Memory Analysis
Venue: Srirangapatna • Mysuru
Learning Approach: Historiographical inquiry • Source evaluation • Comparative legitimacy analysis • Evidence-based argumentation
TOK: To what extent can monuments function as reliable historical evidence?
EE Support: Refinement of historical research questions • Source classification • Perspective analysis • Limitation and bias evaluation
Power, Resistance, and Political Memory is a DP 2 analytical field investigation examining how rulers construct legitimacy through architecture and how such constructions are reinterpreted over time.
Students move beyond descriptive comparison toward historiographical evaluation, assessing monuments as primary sources shaped by perspective, patronage, and political intention. Emphasis is placed on reliability, origin, purpose, and value and limitation analysis aligned with History IA criteria.
Legitimacy • Sovereignty • Political Memory • Representation • Historiography
· Thinking Skills: evaluation, synthesis, counterclaim construction
· Research Skills: source analysis, origin-purpose-value-limitation assessment
· Communication Skills: structured historical argumentation using command terms
· Self-Management Skills: analytical discipline and precision
· Social Skills: structured academic debate
Students must produce:
• Comparative Monument Source Analysis Table
• OPVL Evaluation of One Site
• 500-word Evaluative Comparative Essay Using Command Terms
• IA or EE Research Proposal with Clear Scope and Methodology
Reflection-only responses are not accepted.
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