Perspectives
Kinds of Knowledge
Ways of Knowing
Areas of Knowledge
Natural Sciences
100
This can serve in TOK as a metaphor for perspectives
What is a map?
100
This kind of knowledge is focused on what you (or I) know.
What is personal knowledge?
100
Knowing despite evidence.
What is faith?
100
Dealing with things in the past.
What is history?
100
The natural sciences are often seen to be in conflict with this?
What is religious faith?
200
TOK attempts to be open to alternative __________ and to be able to assess them critically.
What are perspectives?
200
This kind of knowledge focuses on what a group knows.
What is shared knowledge?
200
You use this way of knowing at all times.
What is sense perception?
200
Psychology, anthropology and sociology.
What is human science?
200
Scientist must modify their use of this when speaking with non-specialists about their findings.
What is language?
300
This could be defined as "the learned patterns of behaviour (i.e. traditions and customs) characteristic of a society" or as "the fabric of meaning in terms of which human beings interpret their experience and guide their action."
What is culture?
300
This kind of knowledge comes through living.
What is experiential knowledge?
300
There are around 6,500 versions of this way of knowing.
What is language.
300
The trolley problem.
What is Ethics.
300
Scientists are routinely thought to rely on these two ways of knowing most heavily.
What are sense perception and reason?
400
This key term related to cultural characteristic affects how you view the world.
What is worldview?
400
This kind of knowledge can best be expressed through tying a shoelace, or making nasi goreng.
What is procedural knowledge (or know how knowledge)?
400
Essential to relationships but can often lead to false conclusions.
What is emotion?
400
Pythagoras was considered the first.
What is mathematics.
400
Reliable shared knowledge in science is promoted through this.
What is peer review?
500
One of the IBDP Learner Profile attributes that relates to Perspectives.
What is open-mindedness (or other acceptable answers)?
500
This type of knowledge could occur when you play a trivia game, like this one.
What is "knowing that" or knowledge claims?
500
Induction is a central principle of this way of knowing.
What is reason?
500
Two similar areas of knowledge concerned with existential meaning.
What are religious knowledge systems and indigenous knowledge systems?
500
This method is vital for all scientific knowledge.
What is the scientific method?