Knowledge Issue What is a Knowledge Issue? Questions/factors that help us to obtain knowledge Factors which hinder our ability to obtain knowledge TaK.

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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

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 Nationality Prejudice 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 Sense Perception Emotion Reason Mathematics Human Sciences History Arts Ethics Ways of Knowing Areas of Knowledge Theory of Knowledge Diagram 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 Sense Perception Emotion Reason Mathematics Human Sciences History Arts Ethics Ways of Knowing Areas of Knowledge Theory of Knowledge Diagram TaK – Knowledge Issues

Knowledge Issues? Capital Punishment

Knower(s) Natural Sciences Language Sense Perception Emotion Reason Mathematics Human Sciences History Arts Ethics Ways of Knowing Areas of Knowledge Theory of Knowledge Diagram TaK – Knowledge Issues

Knowledge Issues? Guernica

Knower(s) Natural Sciences Language Sense Perception Emotion Reason Mathematics Human Sciences History Arts Ethics Ways of Knowing Areas of Knowledge Theory of Knowledge Diagram TaK – Knowledge Issues