This ritual is performed almost daily for many people in this culture. They have a collection of wooden sticks of different lengths and sizes, with different animal hair attached to them. They also possess numerous boxes of different sizes and shapes containing different contents. For many woman in this culture, they almost always open this…
Please explain what links you are making between this idea of privilege and paradigms. Can you draw on your own experiences of your own privilege here? In the article “White privilege:Unpacking the invisible knapsack”, the author explores numerous ideas and aspects of white privilege and suggests how the ‘white’ paradigm that white individuals hold is…
Conceptual understanding: Our understanding of the reality is based on our interpretation of the information around us which is driven by our paradigm. A paradigm is a set of concepts that are commonly agreed upon that we base our logical reasoning upon. It consists of a system of knowledge, beliefs and ideas that are commonly…
In the first TOK lesson back from summer, we reviewed the different Areas of Knowledge that we learnt about, and started considering the different Ways of Knowing. One real-life example that came to mind after the discussions in class is one that is very current and one that I may wish to expand and extrapolate…
RLS: ‘Tuskegee Study in Untreated Syphilis in Negro Male’ KQ: Should the context be important when we consider the value of knowledge? In 1932, 399 African Americans with syphilis participated in a study that aimed to document the progress of syphilis without treatment. However, the participants were told that they were treated for ‘bad blood’….