Knowledge

Personal Knowledge is a knowledge acquired by an individual through his/her experience, practice and personal involvement and closely bound up with the local circumstances of an individual. The local circumstances of an individual such as biography, interest and values are integral part of acquiring a personal knowledge. The personal knowledge is influenced by the individual’s perspective, which gets built over a period of time. Personal knowledge refers to the possession of knowledge by an individual and hence in many languages, the verb “I know“ is attached to it. The personal knowledge therefore includes individual’s skills, talent and what he has learnt through his interactions with the others and personal experience. Personal knowledge…

While exploring the relationship between our shared knowledge and our individual knowledge, we see that there is an influence from both directions. Shared knowledge, in this context, is the knowledge belonging to a particular group of people who may be collaboratively working together, either in a separate ‘space and time’ or different places. On the other hand, personal knowledge can be interpreted as knowledge resulting from the influence of my own individual perspective, which includes…

constructors of our own knowledge as well as knowing what we know and what we do not know about the universe. Knowledge can be viewed and defined in many depending on the person, culture, religion, and lifestyle. Whether people like Sagan or Hawking may dispute their point of views of the universe, they also pertain to have similarities about it as well. Our own beliefs of what knowledge represents to society as well as individually to us can often be subject to outside influence. The common…

learn from their TOK books is “Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge” (Khalil Gibran). This quote, better than anything, explains that gaining knowledge begins with disagreement. Multiple people may see the same thing differently having different thoughts and ideas about it. Some of these people’s ideas will turn out to be true depending on the evidence that they get, others seeing that their theories have no backing will agree that what the other person suggests is true. Thus, robust…

between Socrates and Meno but instead pulls the reader into a series of questions, without clear conclusions. Although the focus of the Meno is virtue the way in which Plato approaches the topic (by putting forth new questions which surround the central one) allows for a deeper evaluation of each question. In the dialogue, the words knowledge and wisdom are used almost interchangeably and it is assumed that both knowledge and wisdom must be taught. Yet, knowledge and wisdom have two different…

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…

Although conceptual and procedural knowledge cannot always be separated, it is useful to distinguish between the two types of knowledge to better understand knowledge development. First consider conceptual knowledge. A concept is ‘an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances’ (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 2012). Knowledge of concepts is often referred to as conceptual knowledge (e.g. Byrnes & Wasik, 1991; Canobi, 2009; Rittle-Johnson, Siegler, & Alibali, 2001).…

Prescribed Title: With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge. To what extent can shared knowledge modify our behaviour and perspective on aspects of life? Shared knowledge plays a huge role in shaping who we are as people, it helps us to identify ourselves and hence, quite obviously have a great influence over our personal knowledge. Shared knowledge is knowledge that many people take part in producing via collaboration, and…

of thinking, and more predominantly, the act of creating knowledge as something that can only be achieved through first-hand experience or research, recent technological advancements within the last decade have led to many new ways of achieving this. Knowledge creation can be defined as the formation of new ideas which can be accomplished through interactions between explicit and implicit knowledge occurring during thought (Business Dictionary 2016). Technological advancements such as the…

Knowledge is found in many ways yet it may be broadly classified into ‘Shared Knowledge’ and ‘Personal knowledge’. With reference to ‘Shared Knowledge’, we often mean to say ‘we know’, being objective in nature. The field of education is a shared knowledge system where individuals from different cultural backgrounds are collectively brought and are imparted with ideas based on various areas of knowledge, which contain theories, facts and information. In this era of rapid technological change,…