{"id":13021,"date":"2020-07-08T09:49:37","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T00:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/?p=13021"},"modified":"2020-07-11T16:36:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T07:36:31","slug":"compulsory-knowledge-framework-as-a-trap-artificial-boundaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/2020\/07\/08\/compulsory-knowledge-framework-as-a-trap-artificial-boundaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory knowledge framework as a trap: artificial boundaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Want to know what traps and pitfalls to look out for in the new TOK syllabus? In this post, I&#8217;ll show you what to look out for with the new &#8220;compulsory&#8221; elements of the knowledge framework.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">For an overview of the new TOK spec, see <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/2020\/06\/25\/the-new-tok-syllabus-at-a-glance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The new TOK syllabus at a glance<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is the first in a series of blog posts entitled \u201cTraps and loopholes in the new TOK syllabus\u201d. You can access the full list of blog posts in the series <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/2020\/07\/08\/traps-and-loopholes-in-the-new-tok-syllabus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the key changes in the new TOK syllabus is that the four elements of the knowledge framework (Scope, Perspectives, Methods and tools, Ethics) are now \u201ccompulsory\u201d. This means that for every unit in the course (such as the core theme, optional themes, areas of knowledge) you must ensure that you discuss knowledge questions related to all four elements of the knowledge framework. Let\u2019s visualize it like this:<\/span><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>Element of the knowledge framework<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Core theme<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Optional theme 1<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Optional theme 2<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Natural Sciences<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Human Sciences<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>Mathematics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>History<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\"><strong>The Arts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>Scope<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>Methods and tools<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>Perspectives<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"96\"><strong>Ethics<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<td width=\"66\">\u2713<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the traps here, I think, is that teachers may <\/span><b>misinterpret<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> this as a requirement to teach the four elements explicitly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13030\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/2020\/07\/08\/compulsory-knowledge-framework-as-a-trap-artificial-boundaries\/image4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13030\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13030\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13030\" src=\"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/07\/image4-300x113.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/07\/image4-300x113.png 300w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/07\/image4-100x38.png 100w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/07\/image4.png 366w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hopefully you can see the trap and now know how to avoid it.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You might have noticed that categorizing knowledge questions under the four elements of the knowledge framework is not an easy task. Sometimes the decision is really tricky. Take for example the following knowledge question from the Guide:<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Does technology allow knowledge to reside outside of human knowers?<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> The Guide categorizes this question under \u201cscope\u201d in the optional theme \u201cKnowledge and technology\u201d, but I think it can be related to several elements of the knowledge framework:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Scope (because the scope of the relationship between knowledge and technology depends on whether we think that machines, and not only humans, can have knowledge)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Perspectives (because there are arguments for and against, and because there are knowledge communities associated with each of the camps)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Methods and tools (because the question is about what cognitive tools humans have that machines don\u2019t).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The word \u201ccompulsory\u201d is scary. Of course, to ensure that we are addressing all four elements in all units in the course, we can teach these four elements one by one. We can say, look kids, now we are starting Natural sciences, and in the first several lessons we\u2019ll do questions related to \u201cScope\u201d, then we will move over to \u201cMethods and tools\u201d, and so on. But:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your kids will ask, Why is this question categorized as Methods and tools and not Scope? And they will be right. Categories are fuzzy, and there is more than one way of looking at them.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">You will end up discussing the same (or similar) knowledge questions two or three times under different headings.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Your students will be confused.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, note the following:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The syllabus has the requirement that questions belonging to all four elements of the knowledge framework are discussed, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">but there is no requirement to categorize questions explicitly into groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Neither will the students need to categorize knowledge questions in any of their assessed tasks. Knowledge questions will be given to them, and it doesn\u2019t really matter if they realize what category the question comes from. What matters is that they have discussed similar questions in class at some point.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Theoretically, students don\u2019t even have to know the labels \u201cScope\u201d, \u201cMethods and tools\u201d, \u201cPerspectives\u201d and \u201cEthics\u201d. It\u2019s the teacher\u2019s job to ensure that the course includes questions from each of the four groups, but it is not students\u2019 headache to be able to tell the difference.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So here is what I\u2019m going to do:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will ensure that the knowledge questions that are discussed in the course come from all four elements of the knowledge framework. I will even try, to the extent possible, to have one question of each type in every lesson. You can see in the book that these knowledge questions appear in the margins. Each of them is labeled with one of the elements of the knowledge framework (for example, #Ethics).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a standalone lesson I will teach my students about the knowledge framework and its four elements (one of the lessons in the Introduction is devoted to that).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">After this, I will stop emphasizing the differences between the four elements. They shouldn\u2019t bother about these artificial boundaries. It\u2019s my job, not theirs.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I will teach them key concepts (such as doubt, justification, bias). These concepts will naturally raise knowledge questions that tick all four boxes. I will make sure that they do. But my students won\u2019t have to bother about which question belongs to which box.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13004\" style=\"width: 232px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/store.themantic-education.com\/collections\/textbooks\/products\/ib-theory-of-knowledge-a-students-guide-textbook\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13004\" class=\"wp-image-13004 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-768x1038.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-1136x1536.jpg 1136w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-1515x2048.jpg 1515w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-100x135.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-906x1225.jpg 906w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled-1200x1622.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.themantic-education.com\/ibtok\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/revslider\/agency-home1\/ib-tok-cover-new-scaled.jpg 1894w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 222px) 100vw, 222px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In Themantic Education\u2019s IB TOK resources, we try to avoid artificial boundaries.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to know what traps and pitfalls to look out for in the new TOK syllabus? 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