This course is central to the IB Diploma and instructs, stimulates, and promotes students to consider their own beliefs, their own worldviews and the reasons they give for knowing what they know. Very often there are no “ correct” answers and students’ assessment is achieved through a presentation and an essay.

TOK stimulates critical reflection on knowledge and experience; students follow a course on critical thinking and learn how to think laterally ….

TOK encourages critical thinking about knowledge itself…….

These are some of the questions addressed

What counts as knowledge?

How does knowledge grow?

Does knowledge have limits?

Who owns knowledge?

What are the implications of having or not having knowledge?

TOK challenges students

To consider what is true
To consider what is propaganda
To ask the question whether seeing is believing ………

This course is also subject related and students examine the claims made by many subjects. An example would be students examining the Scientific Method and the methodology used by Historians; later students examine, weigh and ponder whether the claims made by these academics are valid.

The course last just under the two years and is excellent preparation for life in the twenty first century!