1. ToK - Identity
“Who am I?”

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3. What are some aspects of identity?
ToK - Identity
“Who am I?”
What are some aspects of identity?
What are the things that make you different from everybody else?

4. Mind-map some of the different aspects of your identity
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Mind-map some of the different aspects of your identity
You

5. Circle 3 that are strong in you today Is identity fixed?
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Circle 3 that are strong in you today
Is identity fixed?
Are you two different people:
When you are at home?
When you are here?
How does your identity change when you change languages?

6. ToK - Identity
How do you feel your friends or classmates would describe you differently than you describe yourself?
Working in pairs:
Describe yourself - Adjectives 1 2 3 4 5
Describe partner - Adjectives 1 2 3 4 5

7. What aspects of your identity are problematic/confusing?
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What aspects of your identity are problematic/confusing?
Write for 5 minutes
Share with partner for 2 minutes (one person speaks, the other listens without comment)

8. ToK - Identity
The role of Culture in shaping Identity:
Culture: the set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that characterizes a group.
In culture A the emphasis seems to be on what makes you different from everybody else.
In culture B the emphasis seems to be on what makes you similar to everybody else.
How many of you are from culture A?

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12. Why do we talk about Identity in ToK?
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Why do we talk about Identity in ToK?

13. Theory of Knowledge Diagram
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Theory of Knowledge Diagram
Ways of Knowing
Mathematics
Sense
Perception
Natural
Sciences
Ethics
Areas of Knowledge
Emotion
Reason
Knower(s)
Knower(s)
Language
(Faith)
Human
Sciences
Identity
Arts
History

14. Our identities also affect how others experience us
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How we perceive and experience the world is affected by aspects of Identity
Our identities also affect how others experience us

15. “History is inextricably linked to identity.
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“History is inextricably linked to identity.
If you don't know your history,
if you don't know your family,
who are you?”
Mary Pipher
“I am a part of all that I have seen.”
Tennyson

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We do not think of the ordinary person as preoccupied with such difficult and profound questions as:
“What is truth?”
“What is authority?”
“To whom should I listen?”
“What counts for me as evidence?”
“How do I know what I know?”
Yet to ask ourselves these questions and to reflect on our answers is more than an intellectual exercise, for our basic assumptions about the nature of truth and reality and the origins of knowledge shape the way we see the world and ourselves as participants in it.
They affect our definitions of ourselves, the way we interact with others, our public and private personae, our sense of control over life events, our views of teaching and learning, and our conceptions of morality.