Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

similar survey led by Dropp et al (2014) for
A
Washington Post, in the aftermath of the
the
revolution and pro-Russian unrest
Ukrainian
Crimea, found that about one in six people
in
able to correctly locate Ukraine on an
were
map, with young people providing
unlabelled
TOK course invites you to ask all sorts of
The
about how people came to know what
questions
a question such as: what counts as
Consider
Through history, this question has
knowledge?
been answered using a formal checklist or
not
definition but more often through messy
clear
further a respondent thought Ukraine was
The
its actual location, the more likely they
from
to support military intervention, either
were
Russia to pose a threat to US interests
believing
confident that using force would benefit
or
security.
national
different perspectives. Folk and Indigenous
of
the knowledge of women, and
knowledge,
knowledge of those who cannot speak a
the
language or write in any language,
certain
example, have long been excluded,
for
and devalued. This is more than
delegitimized
matter of diversity or inclusion. Knowledge
a
a significant role in shaping narratives
plays
guiding decisions that affect, sometimes
and
those who are not seen as
disproportionately,
I. Scope
I. Scope
Figure 1.2 Can you locate Iran? A Morning Consult/Politico survey (2020) conducted in the United States revealed that 47% of voters
supported the airstrike that killed General Qasem Soleimani, regardless of whether they could identify the Islamic republic on an unlabelled
map, which fewer than 3 in 10 did. Orange dots represent incorrect guesses while green dots represent correct placement.
more accurate answers than other age groups.
I.3 Knowledge matters
they claim to know.
and unequal negotiations about the validity
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