The TOK course, a flagship element in the Diploma Programme, encourages critical thinking about knowledge itself, to try to help young people make sense of what they encounter. Its core content is comprised of questions like these:
- What counts as knowledge?
- How does it grow?
- What are its limits?
- Who owns knowledge?
- What is the value of knowledge?
- What are the implications of having, or not having, knowledge?
What makes TOK unique, and distinctively different from standard academic disciplines, is its process. At the centre of the course is the student as knower. In TOK they have the opportunity to step back from the
relentless acquisition of new knowledge, in order to consider knowledge issues. TOK activities
and discussions aim to help students discover and express their views on knowledge.
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