Areas Of Knowledge Mindmap
- Created by: Charlotte Donker
- Created on: 25-04-15 09:59
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- AOK
- Natural sciences
- Physics/Biology/Chemistry
- Scientific Method
- Results are unprejudiced and repeatable, testable
- Hindered by Fallacious Reasoning
- WOK – Reason
- Falsifiability
- Possibility of proving it flase
- Most accurate answer we have at the time
- Evidence refuting this can cause a paradigm shift
- Paradigm shift – a change in approach or underlying assumptions
- Evidence refuting this can cause a paradigm shift
- Human Sciences
- Humanities/Social Science/Psychology
- Gathering of Qualitative and Quantitative Data
- Qualitative – Observations/Behaviour
- Quantitative – Numerical
- Find causation and correlation
- Can be difficult – i.e. Chicken and Egg
- Study of things "aware" of their own existence
- WOKs – Emotion
- Ethics
- Study of morals
- WOKs can be used to investigate how ethics are used
- Many different perspectives
- E.g. Religion – interpretation of scripture
- Theories
- Utilitarianism – an action’s worth should be measured solely by the amount of happiness it brings about.
- Deontologicalism – intrinsic right or wrong of the intention to act, rather than the consequences
- Consequentialism – judged by the consequences of the actions
- One of the most complicated AOKs
- Study of morals
- Religious Knowledge Systems (RKS)
- Affect of religion
- Differences between religious beliefs
- WOKs – Faith, Emotion
- Mostly contradicts Natural Sciences
- Affect of religion
- The Arts
- Problem constituting what "proper" art is
- Subjective
- Variation from person to person
- E.g. Beauty
- Variation from person to person
- WOK – Emotion
- Reflection of society, therefore changes over time
- Mathematics
- Treated as singular branch of science concerning number, quantity and space
- Not actually science however due to lack of falsifiablity
- WOK – Reason
- Relationship with the Arts
- Treated as singular branch of science concerning number, quantity and space
- History
- Study of the past – interaction with it
- Changes being made
- Progression
- Evidence
- How this can affect the history we know
- Events being rewritten
- How this can affect the history we know
- Changes being made
- Study of the past – interaction with it
- Indigenous Knowledge Systems (IKS)
- Original inhabitants of region
- Diverse and hard to access
- WOK – Imagination
- Elders and the passing of knowledge
- Different perspectives on world and acquiring knowledge about it
- NEW (2015)
- Natural sciences
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