Art, Music, Culture, Historical Legacy - aesthetic questions about beauty and complex questions about music and politics?

AOK - Art, Music, Human Sciences (Culture), WOK - Sense Pereption, Emotion, Imagination, - can you think of any others and what Knowlege Questions come to mind regarding music in general (is it a language, is a form of communiction?) - to what extent do our own cultural perspectives (personal knowledge and cultural environment influence how we determine beauty in art?)



Different perspectives -

Can we agree on a universal definition of beauty in  art? What did Keats mean when he wrote "Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?

Politics and history -

Is our perception of music influnced by its cultural associations - for example if Wagner was Hitler's favourite composer, can we separate that fact from our experience of Wagner and how important is the work of Jewish conductor Daniel Barenboim in choosing to promote Wagner's music despite Hitler's love of Wagner?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CwqwhJfghc

But the controversy persists:
CLICK ON THIS LINK FOR NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW  https://www.nytimes.com/books/99/01/24/reviews/990124.24ryanlt.html

NIETZSCHE AND WAGNER
A Lesson in Subjugation.By Joachim Kohler.
Translated by Ronald Taylor.
Illustrated. 186 pp. New Haven:
Yale University Press. $25.

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Grade X1 discuss Knowledge Questions

   

 Grade X1 studetns Atishi and Sarya present their ideas on Knowledge Questions to our TOK students.

BDSIS GRADE X1 TOK ORAL PROJECT

THE TOK PROJECT AND ORAL PRESENTATION

REAL  LIFE  SITUATION – STUDENTS HAVE WORKED IN GROUPS

KNOWLEDGE QUESTION

HOW CAN WE KNOW IF THE ORAL PROJECT HAS HELPED STUDENTS UNDERSTAND THE FIRST 3 CHAPTERS OF THE BOOK?

Students should post a brief comment here by Tuesday evening.

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Or is it deliberately inflammatory rhetoric to stir up the baser demons of fear rather than the 'better angels of our nature'? If we use Language and Emotion and Reason as WOKs, can we can form a KQ about this clip from Mr Trump?

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TOK ESSAY TITLES MAY 2017

There will be a special meeting of all students and teachers in late September to discuss best practice in exploring these titles.

1. “It is only knowledge produced with difficulty that we truly value.”To what extent do you agree with this statement?
2. “Facts are needed to establish theories but theories are needed to make sense of facts.”Discuss this statement with reference to two areas of knowledge.
3. Should key events in the historical development of areas of knowledge always bejudged by the standards of their time?
4. “In the production of knowledge, traditions of areas of knowledge offer correctivesfor ways of knowing.”  To what extent do you agree with this statement?
5. Given access to the same facts, how is it possible that there can be disagreementbetween experts in a discipline?  Develop your answer with reference to two areas of knowledge.
6. “Humans are pattern  seeking animals and we are adept at finding patternswhether they exist or not” (adapted from Michael Shermer).  Discuss knowledgequestions raised by this idea in two areas of knowledge.

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