How is new knowledge about the world created?
BQ5 asks How is new knowledge about the world created? During this unit, we think about the way new ideas and theories about the world appear, and how and why knowledge develops over time.
We focus primarily on the natural sciences and language, looking at the ‘provisional nature’ of scientific knowledge, and whether we should take a prescriptivist or descriptivist approach to changes in language. But we also think about the other aspects of the course, considering all the areas of knowledge in the context of different real-life situations within the first lesson of the unit.