MOVED TOK 2, Day 26 (10/22): Revising the Curriculum

Aims & Objectives

1. develop an awareness of how individuals and communities construct knowledge and how this is critically examined
2. develop an interest in the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives and an awareness of personal and ideological assumptions
3. examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge

Essential Questions:

1. How do historians construct knowledge? 
2. How do we decide what counts as history?

Agenda (Google Slides):

• Revising the Curriculum Activity & Discussion

Homework:

• Bring back UWG Permission form if you have not already done so
• Find a promising TOK Presentation RLS and use it to extract a knowledge question

MOVED TOK 2, Day 24 (10/16): Intro to History

Aims & Objectives

• make connections between a critical approach to the construction of knowledge, the academic disciplines and the wider world
• examine how academic disciplines/areas of knowledge generate and shape knowledge
• understand the roles played by ways of knowing in the construction of shared and personal knowledge

Central Knowledge Questions

1. How do historians construct knowledge of the past?
2. What role do culturally consecrated icons, images, and symbols play in our thinking about history?

Agenda

• Intro to History as an AOK
• Draw History

Homework & Upcoming