Knowledge issues
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.
These issues are intended to open to inquiry and exploration not only problems but also strengths of
knowledge. Students sometimes overlook the positive value of different kinds of knowledge, and the
discriminatory power of methods used to search for knowledge, to question it, and to establish its validity.
Knowledge issues can reveal how knowledge can be a benefit, a gift, a pleasure and a basis for further
thought and action, just as they can uncover the possible uncertainties, biases in approach, or limitations
relating to knowledge, ways of knowing, and the methods of verification and justification appropriate
in different areas of knowledge.
Source IB TOK SUBJECT GUIDE 2008
Example of Knowledge Issue or Question: Can the Golden Ration of Mathematics be applied to our ideas of beauty in men and women?
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.
These issues are intended to open to inquiry and exploration not only problems but also strengths of
knowledge. Students sometimes overlook the positive value of different kinds of knowledge, and the
discriminatory power of methods used to search for knowledge, to question it, and to establish its validity.
Knowledge issues can reveal how knowledge can be a benefit, a gift, a pleasure and a basis for further
thought and action, just as they can uncover the possible uncertainties, biases in approach, or limitations
relating to knowledge, ways of knowing, and the methods of verification and justification appropriate
in different areas of knowledge.
Source IB TOK SUBJECT GUIDE 2008
Example of Knowledge Issue or Question: Can the Golden Ration of Mathematics be applied to our ideas of beauty in men and women?
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