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Understanding Knowledge Questions: Exploring the Nature of Belief and Justification

Knowledge questions (KQs) are inquiries about how we know what we know, transcending specific topics. They invite critical thinking about belief, truth, and evidence across various fields like mathematics and science. This guide outlines steps to formulate effective KQs, starting from real-life examples such as government policies or personal experiences. We’ll explore the connections between concepts like ways of knowing, justification, and cultural perspectives. Open-ended and precise, KQs help deepen our understanding of knowledge and our approaches to learning.

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Understanding Knowledge Questions: Exploring the Nature of Belief and Justification

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  1. Knowledge Questions What are they? How do I make them?

  2. Definition • Knowledge questions are questions about knowledge (not a specific topic) • What does that mean?

  3. Why do we ask Knowledge questions???? Why?????

  4. Asking yourself how do I know? That is a knowledge question! • More than “how do I know?” its more like • How do we know in Maths? • How do I know in Science? • KQ’s link concepts like WOKs, justification, culture, perspectives, truth, belief, experience, evidence, bias

  5. Step one… • 1) Take a real life example • A new government policy • An article on science or religion • A book • Something that happened to you or someone you know

  6. Step 2, brainstorm • Take the real life example and see how many angles you can approach it from • i.e. How doe religious people come to their beliefs? • Are religious beliefs reasonable? • How can reason be used to justify religious belief? ~ this is good

  7. For a good Knowledge question • Should be open- ended • Explicitly about knowledge (not the subject) • Should have TOK vocabulary and concepts • Precise in terms of relationships between these concepts

  8. Should we believe paranormal claims? ~An open ended question ~ Explicitly about knowledge Couched in terms of TOK ~vocabulary and concepts ~Precise in terms of relationships between these concepts Does the paranormal exist? What is a 6th sense? What type of question could you write in here? A film on haunting

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