New WOKs and AOKs

IBAEM, TOK for Subject Teachers Workshop, Abu Dhabi 2013

Ways Of Knowing

Language

Sense perception
Emotion Reason Imagination Faith Intuition Memory

You choose 4 of them

Imagination

What is the role of imagination in producing knowledge about a real world? Can imagination reveal truths that reality hides?

What is the role of the imagination in understanding others?

Imagination

Science fiction or stories ethics? Medical use (schizophrenia, autism) Creativity Etc

Faith

Should humanism or atheism be described as a faith? Can theistic beliefs be considered knowledge because they are produced by a special cognitive faculty or divine sense ? Does faith meet a psychological need?

Faith

Faith as religious faith Faith as trust Non theistic faith (Buddhism) Rational or irrational? Is it a real Way of Knowing?

Intuition

Why are some people considered more intuitive than others? Are there certain things that you have to know prior to being able to learn anything at all? Should you trust your intuition?

Intuition

Immediate cognition without prior inference, evidence or justification (cf: Jung) Instinct, innate

Immediate awareness

Memory

Can we know things which are beyondour personal present experience? Is eyewitness testimony a reliable source of evidence? Can our beliefs contaminate our memory?

Memory

We retain information through memory. Source of knowledge or process we use to recall knowledge gained in the past?

Amnesia recovering memory is connected to emotion

Areas Of Knowledge

Mathematics Natural sciences Human sciences

You

History
The Arts Ethics

choose 6 of them

Religious knowledge systems

Indigenous knowledge systems

Religious knowledge systems

How do we decide between the competing claims of different religious knowledge systems? Can there ever be a basis for religious knowledge that is independent of the culture that produces it? Is atheism as much a matter of faith as religious belief ?

Religious knowledge systems

What are the meaning and purpose of Human life? only one truth? Only one religion? Can there ever be a basis for religious knowledge that is independent of the culture that produces it? Is atheism as much a matter of faith as religious belief ?

Religious knowledge systems

Indigenous knowledge systems

In what ways are sense perception and memory crucial in constructing knowledge in indigenous knowledge systems? How do beliefs about the physical and metaphysical world influence the pursuit of knowledge in indigenous knowledge systems? How do indigenous people use the concept of respect to relate to their view of the world?

Indigenous knowledge systems

Indigenous knowledge systems are not static and change with the exposure to other cultures. You can observe one culture or several.

How do indigenous people use the concept of respect to relate to their view of the world?

Indigenous knowledge systems

Any question?