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Knowledge Issue
What is a Knowledge Issue?
• Questions/factors that help us to obtain knowledge
• Factors which hinder our ability to obtain knowledge
TaK – Knowledge Issues
TaK – Knowledge Issues
What is a Knowledge Issue?
1) Questions that we ask that we may better understand the world, ourselves and others
What?
Who?
How?
Why?When?
Where?
TaK – Knowledge Issues
What is a Knowledge Issue?
2) Factors that may hinder our ability to understand the world, ourselves and others
Age Ethnicity
Education
Gender
NationalityPrejudice Experience
Beliefs
Emotions
Assumptions
TaK – Knowledge Issues
What is a Knowledge Issue?
Questions that we ask that we may better understand the world, ourselves and others
Factors that may hinder our ability to understand the world, ourselves and others
TaK – Knowledge Issues
Good knowledge issues:• Open-ended questions• Explicitly about knowledge• Using ToK vocabulary and concepts:
Areas of Knowledge - Arts, Sciences, Ethics, etc.
Ways of Knowing - Reason, Perception, Language, Emotion.
Knower(s)
Natural Sciences
Language
SensePerception
Emotion
Reason
Mathematics
Human Sciences
History
Arts
Ethics
Ways of Knowing
Areas of Knowledge
Theory of Knowledge DiagramTaK – Knowledge Issues
TaK – Knowledge Issues
Good knowledge issues:• Open-ended questions• Explicitly about knowledge• Using ToK vocabulary and concepts:
Areas of Knowledge - Arts, Sciences, Ethics, etc.
Ways of Knowing - Reason, Perception, Language, Emotion.
Linking concepts - belief, certainty, culture, evidence, experience, interpretation, justification , truth etc
TaK – Knowledge Issues
Knowledge Issues?
Acupuncture
Knower(s)
Natural Sciences
Language
SensePerception
Emotion
Reason
Mathematics
Human Sciences
History
Arts
Ethics
Ways of Knowing
Areas of Knowledge
Theory of Knowledge DiagramTaK – Knowledge Issues
TaK – Knowledge Issues
Knowledge Issues?
Capital Punishment
Knower(s)
Natural Sciences
Language
SensePerception
Emotion
Reason
Mathematics
Human Sciences
History
Arts
Ethics
Ways of Knowing
Areas of Knowledge
Theory of Knowledge DiagramTaK – Knowledge Issues
TaK – Knowledge Issues
Knowledge Issues?
Guernica
Knower(s)
Natural Sciences
Language
SensePerception
Emotion
Reason
Mathematics
Human Sciences
History
Arts
Ethics
Ways of Knowing
Areas of Knowledge
Theory of Knowledge DiagramTaK – Knowledge Issues