Missionary Boomerang
How does contact with other cultures change our own? TOK integration in World Religions featuring the enlightening research done by Prof. David Hollinger, UC Berkeley.
Category: Connecting Thursdays
Fundamental or Accidental?
TOK in Action featuring astrophysicist Scott Tremaine: To what extent can we determine if what we observe is an inevitable consequence of a fundamental law or simply happenstance?
Undue Influence
TOK integration in psychology: Prof. Matthew Walker on the nature of appropriate evidence for a scientific theory. Under what circumstances do authority figures inhibit the development of knowledge?
The Lower Ground
TOK Integration across the DP curriculum: How do we know when common societal stereotypes are false?
Fake “Fake News”?
Integrating TOK in history, global politics and philosophy: How do we know when our collective moral standards are slipping?
Historical Illumination
The real-world connection between TOK and physics: Under what circumstances can examining the past help guide future discoveries?
Pondering Proof
The real-world connection between TOK and mathematics: How do we know when something has been mathematically proven and what role does intuition play?
Objective Progress
An example of the real-world overlap between TOK and music featuring renowned acoustician and violinmaker Joseph Curtin.
Misapplications
Integrating TOK across the DP curriculum: the overlap between TOK and psychology, language and media featuring the insights of renowned psychologist Carol Dweck, Stanford University.
Historical Imagination
Integrating TOK across the DP curriculum: eminent historian Sir John Elliott, Oxford, gives us a real-world example of how imagination can directly assist the knowledge process.