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James Jones

James Jones

IB History and Economics teacher at International Academy of Macomb; IBEN Workshop Leader, examiner, and certified trainer for IB Diploma Programme

Jul 15, 2026

3:39
How about the thematic study?
3:41
Yeah.
3:42
So the thematic study is going to, uh, unsurprisingly focus on these themes, these, uh, I don't wanna say the concepts 'cause we also have our key concepts as well, but I mean, they're just kind of these, these bigger ideas.
3:55
And this, uh, it really gives a lot of, um, freedom and agency to the various schools, the various teachers to kind of bring in some of the, their, their own topics that they wanna look at.
4:07
So if we look at the key themes here, like the, the idea is that we have to, uh, select one of these.
4:15
So we, much like with the focus study, we have the option to choose, and so we get to look at themes like conflict, innovation and transformation, authoritarian rule, or popular mo- movements.
4:27
And so we choose one of those four topics, and from that, we have to use at least two examples, two case studies to explore.
7:19
Uh, why don't you talk about that in this, in the history course?

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