Saturday, November 3, 2007

Pick one of your GCSE/IB subjects...What sorts of 'knowledge' and/or 'truths' does this subject convey?

I have chosen sport studies...

Sports studies is a very straight forward subject, it taught me many things about sports, various sports, drugs in sports, the elite athlete and the body types. in a lot of ways this subject has many truths but who is to say that some drugs in sports are illegal, what is the elite athlete in his/her sport and what body type they should be. all this information is propositional knowledge, can we trust this information, the information is based on what people think is the fastest, longest time you can run and how much you can lift or push.

2 comments:

shivani said...

What you said is pretty true, but what does this subject teach us that is helpful and about theory of knowledge?

Steve Burnett said...

A good start Brendan and thanks again to Shivani for a very reaasonable question!What does sports studies have to do with TOK?Is it even helpful? What's the skill base?Is it all propositional?