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…
LO3 Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience LO5 Demonstrate the skills and recognise the benefits of working collaboratively In my last year of Culturama, I wanted to represent my own culture – China. Our dance takes on a narrative of traveling throughout the history of China. Inspired by a poem written by…
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…
LO3 Demonstrate how to initiate and plan a CAS experience LO6 Demonstrate engagement with issues of global significance Although we could not physically go to project week 2020, our planning process was still very valuable. It was my first time planning for a meaningful trip solely by myself and I developed many skills, my organisation…
读书笔记
洛夫，生于1928年五月11日，逝于2018年三月19日，原名莫运端，是湖南衡阳人。国际著名诗人、世界华语诗坛泰斗、诺贝尔文学奖提名者、中国最著名的现代诗人，被诗歌界誉为“诗魔”。 洛夫写诗、译诗、教诗、编诗五十余年，代表作有：诗集《时间之伤》《灵河》(1957)、《石室之死亡》(1965)、《众荷喧哗》(1976)、《因为风的缘故》(1988)、《月光房子》(1990)、《漂木》(2001)等三十一部。散文集《一朵午荷》、《落叶在火中沉思》等六部，评论集《诗人之镜》等五部，译著《雨果传》等八部。 洛夫是台湾现代诗坛最杰出和最具震撼力的诗人，为中国诗坛超现实主义的代表人物，由于表现手法近乎魔幻，因此被诗坛誉为“诗魔”。台湾出版的《中国当代十大诗人选集》如此评称：“从明朗到艰涩，又从艰涩返回明朗，洛夫在自我否定与肯定的追求中，表现出惊人的韧性，他对语言的锤炼，意象的营造，以及从现实中发掘超现实的诗情，乃得以奠定其独特的风格，其世界之广阔、思想之深致、表现手法之繁复多变，可能无出其右者。”
The global issue I would like to explore in my IO would be about the conformity to social norms and conventions, looking closely at the concept of conformity and perhaps what do people conform to and why. Both Edouard Manet and Bob Dylan have expressed the challenge and refusal to conform to such norms. Manet…