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Theory of Knowledge

Dr. F. J. Schaack

 

IB Theory of Knowledge

Curriculum-Map

 

Focus: Discovering one’s personal epistemology

Broad-based Concept: Acknowledging the linkages of subjects

across knowledge                                                                                                              Generalizations:  Knowing and appreciating the various screens of knowledge allow a thought-user to better access and apply the world as concept

                                               

Unit One

 

“The Shadows of Incomplete Knowledge”

Unit Two

 

“The Venn linkages of Our Mind(s)”

 

Unit Three

 

“Extensions of TOK”

 

 

 

 

 

Concepts:

 

Thinking About Thought

How Do We Know What We Know

The TOK Interdisciplinary Wheel

Concepts:

 

Applying the TOK Wheel

Western Philosophical Thought as Our Thought

Concepts:

 

TOK has relevance in the world outside the classroom

 

 

 

 

 

Enduring Understandings:

 

The students will engage the concept of philosophy as love-of-wisdom, and discover linkages between themselves and enduring philosophical thought.  As well, the tenet of consilience must be adopted to maximize any single area of knowledge.

Enduring Understandings:

 

TOK concepts are immediately applicable and useful to the responsible knower, who must then be able to express them in a variety of styles to a variety of audiences.

 

 

Enduring Understandings:

 

As lifelong learners, borrowing and coopting ideas and ideals can assist the struggle of one’s personal epistemology as conscious thought/life

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Essential TEKS Questions:

 

1.        How is Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave” a metaphor for the struggle of lifelong learning?

2.        How are the 6 Areas of Knowledge empowered by the 4 Ways of Knowing?

3.        Why is consilient thought necessary in modern academia?

4.        How can the interdisciplinary knower challenge epistemological concepts via the TOK essay?

 

 

Essential TEKS Questions:

 

1.        What are some of the major tenets of Western Philosophy that are still directly applicable in today’s world?

2.        How can a thinker strategically and effectively express one’s thoughts, specifically across the TOK Oral?

3.        What are the dangers and disadvantages to strict departmental thinking?

 

 

Essential TEKS Questions:

 

1.        Why do modern thinkers, like Pirsig, find it necessary to know beyond facts?

2.        Why is it advantageous to the successful thinker to utilize TOK across the gamut of disciplines?

3.        In an age of specialization, how does being a “jack-of-all-thought” increase one’s dynamicism as a responsible knower?