Personal knowledge and shared knowledge depict a close relationship in that one may be derived from another, and that the two may only be regarded as knowledge if they include the concept ‘I know’ and ‘we know’ respectively (http://scottlangstontok.edublogs.org/sample-page/shared-and-personal-knowledge/ (accessed on 01/02/2015).
Knowledge can be viewed as the production of one or more human beings. It can be the work of a single individual arrived at as a result of a number of factors including the ways of knowing. Such individual knowledge is called personal knowledge (theory of knowledge guide first assessment 2015 pg. 16). Examples include skills and procedural knowledge that I have acquired through practice and habituation, what I have …show more content…
Based on individuals’ beliefs on how culture delineates their (individuals) view of the world, culture is the source that gives the kind of knowledge obtained. For example, it is a known convention that walking around the street naked implies complete portrayal of immorality and moral decadence in societies. But it was not through the promulgated knowledge that Basotho, Islamic people and other tribes viewed nudity of every sex as immorality. It must have come about by common personal perspectives amongst individuals. This is to imply that knowledge shared in a social manner may also shape shared knowledge. Inversely, since the illustriousness of this convention suggests that no one is to argufy the convention, shared knowledge at which most parts of the world can bank on at all times for as long as there are no newfangled findings or paradigm shifts about it is likely to remain the root from which personal knowledge may be …show more content…
For example, the expression “birds of the same feathers flock together” is a well-known phrase which most native speakers like I am (though my second language) have come across. From this phrase, I structured my personal knowledge basing myself on what the phrase says. I learned that not only should I be of a helping hand to those that are close to me, but I have known that helping the needy and team working with different people was not the context from which the phrase was created, rather, it made me aware that more than blood is thicker than
Knowledge can be viewed as the production of one or more human beings. It can be the work of a single individual arrived at as a result of a number of factors including the ways of knowing. Such individual knowledge is called personal knowledge (theory of knowledge guide first assessment 2015 pg. 16). Examples include skills and procedural knowledge that I have acquired through practice and habituation, what I have …show more content…
Based on individuals’ beliefs on how culture delineates their (individuals) view of the world, culture is the source that gives the kind of knowledge obtained. For example, it is a known convention that walking around the street naked implies complete portrayal of immorality and moral decadence in societies. But it was not through the promulgated knowledge that Basotho, Islamic people and other tribes viewed nudity of every sex as immorality. It must have come about by common personal perspectives amongst individuals. This is to imply that knowledge shared in a social manner may also shape shared knowledge. Inversely, since the illustriousness of this convention suggests that no one is to argufy the convention, shared knowledge at which most parts of the world can bank on at all times for as long as there are no newfangled findings or paradigm shifts about it is likely to remain the root from which personal knowledge may be …show more content…
For example, the expression “birds of the same feathers flock together” is a well-known phrase which most native speakers like I am (though my second language) have come across. From this phrase, I structured my personal knowledge basing myself on what the phrase says. I learned that not only should I be of a helping hand to those that are close to me, but I have known that helping the needy and team working with different people was not the context from which the phrase was created, rather, it made me aware that more than blood is thicker than