Provenance — Social Studies definition
Defined in 2 courses:
- An object’s documented history of ownership, custody, or origin. (Global History & Geography I: Early Societies to c. 1750)
- The origin and production history of a source. (Government, Civic Participation & Economics)
Where it is taught
- Silk Roads: Intermediaries, Ideas & Institutions — Trade Networks, Empires & Disruption, Global History & Geography I: Early Societies to c. 1750, Grade 9
- Civic Evidence, Claims & Fair Public Reasoning — Foundations of Government & Public Reasoning, Government, Civic Participation & Economics, Grade 12
In use
Reliability is evaluated through provenance, method, corroboration, and the particular claim being tested.
Civic Evidence, Claims & Fair Public Reasoning
Taught alongside
- context
- evidence
- interpretation
- intermediary
- empirical claim
- normative claim
- corroboration
- causal mechanism