- 1. Evidence. Everything humans do is based on some kind of evidence springing from experiments or observations. Take Brownian monition, for example.
- 2. Certainty.
- 3. Truth.
- 4. Interpretation.
- 5. Power.
The key concepts are 12 particular significant ideas that are at the heart of TOK and the DP. They are: certainty, culture, evidence, explanation, interpretation, justification, objectivity, perspective, power, responsibility, truth, and values.
The 12 concepts are: certainty, culture, evidence, explanation, interpretation, justification, objectivity, perspective, power, responsibility, truth, and values. This page discusses the role of these concepts in the course, how they link to the themes and areas of knowledge, and possible ways of exploring them.
Those 12 concepts are Evidence, Certainty, Truth, Interpretation, Power, Justification, Explanation, Objectivity, Perspective, Culture, Values and Responsibility.
Students should also refer to them as much as possible in the two TOK assessment tasks. We’ve identified related exhibition prompts (IAPs) for each key concept, and indicated how they align.
What are the key concepts of TOK?
They are: certainty, culture, evidence, explanation, interpretation, justification, objectivity, perspective, power, responsibility, truth, and values.
The 12 key concepts are ones that have been identified as having a particular significant relationship to knowledge. Understanding, exploring, and using these concepts will help students to understand the way knowledge is produced and used, within all the different elements of the TOK course – the core and optional themes, and the areas of knowledge. Students should also refer to them as much as possible in the two TOK assessment tasks. We’ve identified related exhibition prompts (IAPs) for each key concept, and indicated how they align.
What is the ToK webinar?
This webinar focuses on the 12 concepts which “have particular prominence within, and thread throughout, the ToK course. Exploration of the relationship between knowledge and these concepts can help students to deepen their understanding, as well as facilitating the transfer of their learning to new and different contexts.” (Guide, p.6)
As ToK teachers, there is no obligation to structure the course in a certain way. This means that there is no obligation to have (say) a unit of work for each option chosen, nor a unit of work for each area of knowledge chosen, another unit of work for the core theme (etc.) (although, as we shall see, we can …
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