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 come to know through experience in my life beyond academia, what I have learned through my formal education (mainly shared knowledge that has withstood the scrutiny of the methods of validation of the various areas of knowledge), (theory of knowledge guide first assessment 2015 pg. 18), Shared knowledge is on the other hand highly structured, is systematic in its nature and is the product of more than one individual. Much of it is bound together into more or less distinct areas of knowledge such as the familiar groups of subjects studied in the Diploma Programme (theory of knowledge guide first assessment 2015 pg. 17) Another living example is the discovery by a group of scientists (Copernicus, Plato, Ferdinand Magellan and Pythagoras) that the world is round. This has been confirmed reasonable and thus worthy to conclude it as a fact from experimental findings that acted as an accentuation of its reality and its worthiness to disregard dispute from the global community. (http://discovery.yukozimo.com/who-discovered-the-universe-is-round/ (accessed on 30/11/14). the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries (accessed on 01/02/15) Shared knowledge is not necessarily the preliminary trigger prior to every individual’s personal knowledge. …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 obtained. Faith determines whether or not to shift and shape personal knowledge from shared knowledge. Other Christians choose to accept that through the blood of Jesus Christ, they were circumcised and thus cannot undergo the circumcision period. This is in addition to the unambiguous fact that they consider premarital sex a sin and so believe that HIV chances are rare to them. But what if most of them are not true to their faith? Do they not end up surrendering to the temptation of the so described premarital sex, believing to be spiritually circumcised but physically not? Their personal knowledge from this shared knowledge may either be shaped up by their extent of the strength of their faith otherwise, if not, then shared knowledge takes authority in shaping their personal knowledge individually. Indigenous knowledge systems may constrict the extent of an individual’s open mindedness towards shared knowledge. Other cultures especially Basotho, Zulus, and Xhosas in the southern hemisphere worshiping and believing both in ancestors and God submit before the …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 come to know through experience in my life beyond academia, what I have learned through my formal education (mainly shared knowledge that has withstood the scrutiny of the methods of validation of the various areas of knowledge), (theory of knowledge guide first assessment 2015 pg. 18), Shared knowledge is on the other hand highly structured, is systematic in its nature and is the product of more than one individual. Much of it is bound together into more or less distinct areas of knowledge such as the familiar groups of subjects studied in the Diploma Programme (theory of knowledge guide first assessment 2015 pg. 17) Another living example is the discovery by a group of scientists (Copernicus, Plato, Ferdinand Magellan and Pythagoras) that the world is round. This has been confirmed reasonable and thus worthy to conclude it as a fact from experimental findings that acted as an accentuation of its reality and its worthiness to disregard dispute from the global community. (http://discovery.yukozimo.com/who-discovered-the-universe-is-round/ (accessed on 30/11/14). the 18th-century discovery of oxygen by Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley, Antoine Lavoisier and others. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_multiple_discoveries (accessed on 01/02/15) Shared knowledge is not necessarily the preliminary trigger prior to every individual’s personal knowledge. …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 obtained. Faith determines whether or not to shift and shape personal knowledge from shared knowledge. Other Christians choose to accept that through the blood of Jesus Christ, they were circumcised and thus cannot undergo the circumcision period. This is in addition to the unambiguous fact that they consider premarital sex a sin and so believe that HIV chances are rare to them. But what if most of them are not true to their faith? Do they not end up surrendering to the temptation of the so described premarital sex, believing to be spiritually circumcised but physically not? Their personal knowledge from this shared knowledge may either be shaped up by their extent of the strength of their faith otherwise, if not, then shared knowledge takes authority in shaping their personal knowledge individually. Indigenous knowledge systems may constrict the extent of an individual’s open mindedness towards shared knowledge. Other cultures especially Basotho, Zulus, and Xhosas in the southern hemisphere worshiping and believing both in ancestors and God submit before the …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