Kamakshi Balasubramanian
In our series on the theory of knowledge, this article explores the idea of belief. Belief is all about a person who claims to have knowledge about something or claims to know something. Therefore this ’knowledge claim’ has to be justified, has to be true, and the person who makes the claim has to believe in it.
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Truth is central to knowledge. But how do you decide something is true? What are the characteristics of truth? As difficult as it is to define truth, there are certain conditions that a piece of knowledge has to satisfy to be considered true and therefore worthy of being imbibed.
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Most of the work we do as teachers has to do with Impersonal Knowledge or shared knowledge. In our classrooms, we teach a variety of subjects or disciplines that belong to Areas of Knowledge (AOK).
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Continuing her conversation on how we learn, the author makes us aware of the different ways we gather our knowledge.
Kamakshi Balasubramanian
Exposing children to a variety of areas of study is all fine but perhaps it will help children absorb new knowledge better if they actually know how they learn what they learn.
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