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Art and Knowledge
ToK teaches students to question ways of knowing and examine how knowledge affects understanding. Let's see how this comes into play when looking at art. How does our understanding change when we have...
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Historical Perspective
When looking at cultural context and significance, art works need to be considered also for their art historical context. This is especially true of contemporary or more conceptual based art work. A historical...
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Theory of Knowldege Course
Theory of Knowledge is a pivotal point of the IBDP CORE that encourages students to think critically and curiously. In TOK class students examine how we know things, if we are sure we know them, and to...
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Curiosity Cabinets
Ways of Organizing Knowledge Artists can use methods that appear similar to those used by archeologists and scientists in gathering, categorizing, and displaying objects, but science follows different...
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Journal Examples
We have collated a slideshow of journal pages from 10 different past students, showing a range of different approaches. They are unlabelled as I don't remember exactly who did what, but many thanks to...
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🛠️ Toolkit 🛠️ Reinterpretation
🛠️ Reinterpretation 🛠️ concerns changing one's art-making style, representation method or artistic techniques. Artists can reinterpret a pre-existing artwork or experiment by shifting their mode and way...
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Visual Journal
A journal is a private place for putting down ideas, capturing images, trying out a technique, making notes about something you've seen for future reference. No need to be precious, to censor or feel...
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Studio Habits of Mind
What habits are helpful in determining a productive and dynamic art classroom/ studio? While investigating this for my own teaching I discovered this enlightening study done at the Harvard Graduate School...
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TOK: The 12 concepts
You may not have noticed but TOK has changed it's framework... The main difference is that the new TOK curriculum is focused on "big ideas " through 12 concepts that that are transdisciplinary in nature...
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Art or Craft?
An interesting and always controversial topic for a TOK and ART discussion. It used to be that art and craft were considered one and the same, but the definition of art has changed over time. Much of...