Note: This is a summary of my course. The full document is a 15-page outline.
I
had a lot of trouble summarizing it, but I think you can get an idea of how it
works...
YEAR 1
1. General Introduction & Knowledge and the knower (core theme) 2
weeks (180 min – 3 hrs)
What is TOK/ How does it fit into the DP programme/Assessment (Essay
and Exhibition)/What is knowledge? / Knowledge and belief / ‘Who’ is a knower?
(…)
2. Knowledge framework 2 weeks (180 min – 3 hrs)
Introduction to the Areas of Knowledge (A0K) / The Knowledge
Framework.
3. Knowledge and the Knower (Core theme) 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5
hrs)
What is knowledge? / Difference between information and knowledge /
Can there be false knowledge? / Knowledge and the knower-Perspective
in TOK (…)
4. AOK: Maths 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
Mathematics in the knowledge framework / Is mathematics a language?
Can proofs be considered mathematical truths? / What makes a
mathematical proof “beautiful/elegant”? /Was math discovered or
invented? / Can the patterns observed in mathematics be compared with
that of art?
Maths &Technology: When Computers Write Proofs, What's the Point of
Mathematicians?
5. AOK: The Natural Sciences 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
The natural sciences as an AoK /The natural sciences in the knowledge
framework/ science and pseudoscience / scientific method / falsifiability
criteria of truth in science/ Is science more credible than other areas?
what is the relationship between science and ethics? (…)
Noam Chomsky - Is Science Neutral?
6. AOK: History 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
What is history? / Knowledge Framework / How does language and
culture affect our perspective of history? / Can history be manipulated? /
The challenges of recording history / Is there impartiality in history? / The
dangers of a single historical perspectives (…)
Do we need to decolonize historical thinking?
7. TOK EXHIBITION CRITERIA 3 weeks (270 min – 4,5 hrs)
8. Selecting the prompts and objects 3 weeks (270 min – 4,5 hrs)
9. TOK EXHIBITION 1 week (90 min – 1,5 hr)
(Assessment) / Tok exhibition
YEAR 2
1. AOK: Human Sciences 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
Human sciences as an AOK / HS and the knowledge framework / the
human sciences and their sub-areas/ the method of human sciences /
observation and impartiality (…)
Economics: an art or a science? (YouTube video)
2. AOK: The Arts 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
The arts as an AOK / The arts in the knowledge framework/ What is art/
the role of the artist / How to evaluate art /Arts ant ethical limits. (..)
Who decides what art means? - Hayley Levitt (TED)
3. Knowledge and politics (optional theme) 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
The nature and scope of politics / The relationship between politics and
values relates / Communicating ideas in politics / Politics, perspectives,
and context / Creating knowledge about politics / Becoming a discerning
knower of politics.
Politics & History: What is Historical Revisionism?
5. Knowledge and technology (optional theme) 7 weeks (630 min –
10,5 hrs)
The nature and scope of technology / The relationship between
technology and values / Communicating ideas in technology /
Technology, perspectives, and context (…)
How does technology change our pursuit of knowledge?
6. TOK ESSAY 7 weeks (630 min – 10,5 hrs)
Criteria / How to structure the tok essay / Claims and counterclaims /
How to find good evidence to support your argument (what makes a
good evidence)
