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Identifying Knowledge Issues. Mr Field. What are knowledge Issues?. IB Definition: ‘Knowledge issues are questions that directly refer to our understanding of the world, ourselves and others, in connection with the acquisition, search for, production, shaping and acceptance of knowledge.’
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Identifying Knowledge Issues Mr Field
What are knowledge Issues? • IB Definition: • ‘Knowledge issues are questions that directly refer to our understanding of the world, ourselves and others, in connection with the acquisition, search for, production, shaping and acceptance of knowledge.’ • In simple terms, questions that: • Question what we believe, our reasons for believing it and whether these are good reasons
Some Examples…. • Questions not about what we know but how we know it TASK • For each knowledge issue, see if it meets the criteria mentioned on the previous page. • Try to develop your own knowledge issues and see if they meet these criteria.
Evaluating Knowledge Issues • To Do: • Cut out the cards and categorise them according to the above • Make sure you can justify why you have put each item where you have.
Coming Up With Knowledge Issues • Think of a real-life situation • Brainstorm AoK/ WoK it may touch upon • Formulate 2-3 possible questions • Use the criteria on the previous slide to refine the strongest question
For example: • A disagreement with a friend over what had been said the night before • Sense-perception, language, memory, History, Science • Can we trust memory? • How does sense perception affect memory? • Can we trust memory and sense-perception in science? • Should we trust eye-witness accounts in history? • Given the fallibility of memory and sense-perception, to what extent should we trust eye-witness accounts in history? • Think of a real-life situation • Brainstorm AoK/ WoK it may touch upon • Formulate 2-3 possible questions • Use the criteria on the previous slide to refine the strongest question