This topic covers the broad definitions and interpretations of knowledge, including beliefs about facts, relationships, and principles governing nature and society. It discusses knowledge's relational aspect, involving the knower's engagement with the object of knowledge. Philosophical attempts to define knowledge, such as Plato's and Dewey's views, and the National Curriculum Framework's perspective on knowledge as structured experiences and activities, are highlighted. The distinction betwe...| Teachers Institute
This section delves into the multiple ways through which knowledge can be acquired, including through sense experience, reason, authority, intuition, revelation, and faith. It discusses how sense experience helps us learn about the external world and our internal states, reasoning as a method of acquiring knowledge through deduction and induction, and the limitations and considerations when accepting knowledge from authority. It also explores intuition and revelation as less empirical sources...| Teachers Institute
This part examines the intrinsic characteristics of knowledge, such as its abstract, social, cumulative, limited and limitless, and perspectival nature. It emphasizes knowledge as a shared understanding developed through social interactions and its growth over generations. The discussion extends to how knowledge's cumulative nature reflects both its current limitations and its potential for endless expansion. Additionally, it considers the perspectival aspect of knowledge, suggesting that kno...| Teachers Institute
This segment addresses the epistemological concerns of the origin and validation of knowledge, highlighting the roles of the knower and the known in the knowledge creation process. It discusses how knowledge originates from the knower's engagement with the object, through a process that is both a product and a process in itself. The discussion includes the theory of knowledge, or epistemology, focusing on how knowledge is produced, known, and the dichotomy often created in educational setting...| Teachers Institute
This topic explores the different aspects of knowledge, including the distinctions between abstract vs. concrete, theoretical vs. practical, universal vs. local, and school vs. non-school knowledge. It explains how abstract knowledge involves deep learning beyond facts, while concrete knowledge is about tangible facts. The discussion also covers the significance of theoretical knowledge for understanding concepts in context and the importance of practical knowledge gained through experience. ...| Teachers Institute