2017년 4월 27일 목요일

Preparing for my TOK presentation

My group and I have been preparing for our TOK presentation. We have fortified our Knowledge Question for 5 times in order to make it a 'good TOK question'. It is very hard to do, however, as the question has to be open ended but straight forward giving a brief idea about our areas of knowledge and ways of knowing.
Another challenge we have faced was choosing the appropriate real-life situations. The rls we can choose is very limited as it has to be contemporary (~5 years). Also, the 3 real-life situations required had to be not so vague and has to imply to different areas of knowledge, while at the end, every real life situations had to tie up with our knowledge question. 
Despite these challenges our group is doing great so far, and I believe we can start making our claims more clearly.

2017년 4월 17일 월요일

TOK analysis in "Sorry, David Cameron, But Your British History Is Not Mine"

1st order claim
Bristish values are taught in the British educational system
"Magna Carta" is going to be the centrepiece for the British values campaign

2nd order claim
Only one aspect of British values are emposed in their education
adopting only one part
Claiming anti-nationalism is a strategy used to dismiss dissidents

Knowledge Question

  1. To what extent is emotion manipulate truth in history?
  2. How reliable are "values" based on a nation's history?
  3. --> To what extent does a nation's history shape its values?