What methods, tools and practices do we use to produce knowledge? This element focuses on the building of conceptual frameworks, traditions and practices. This lesson addresses almost all of the 12 concepts central to TOK, especially that of culture, as well as point of view. Lesson Plan: Whose perspective? Letters of an Indian Judge to an English GentlewomanĮxplore how knowledge claims are shaped by different cultural and social perspectives. It encourages them to reflect on historical perspectives and how knowledge changes over time. This element focuses on the importance and influence of perspectives and context, encouraging students to reflect on their own perspectives, as well as that of different people or groups. Consider the nature and scope of the making of history and partially simulate the production of knowledge in history. This lesson uses the area of knowledge of history to demonstrate the element of scope within the Knowledge Framework.
Lesson Plan: What’s worth remembering: The reach of history This element focuses on exploring how each theme and area of knowledge fits within human knowledge as a whole, as well as considering the nature of the problems within each theme or area of knowledge, and how they are addressed.
Read on for an overview of each element of the Knowledge Framework and download the accompanying lesson plan. The four elements provide a structure that encourages deeper exploration, providing your students with a common vocabulary, and helping them make effective connections and comparisons across the curriculum. The example knowledge questions suggested for each theme and area of knowledge in the 2020 TOK Subject Guide are organised into this framework. One of these changes was the introduction of a new compulsory Knowledge Framework and its four elements: Scope, Perspective, Methods and Tools, and Ethics. There were a number of significant changes to the Theory of Knowledge curriculum in the 2020 Subject Guide, which you can find out more about in Sue’s handy guide to the changes. Sue Bastian, the architect of the original Theory of Knowledge curriculum, has devised a series of lesson plans to help you familiarise yourself and your students with the four elements of the new compulsory IB Knowledge Framework.
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