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We will host a series of talks for all TOK pupils focussing on different Areas of Knowledge (AOKs) and Themes within the TOK course. Resourcses from the talk will be available here.
Upcoming Talks: 30th Sept 2025 Taiwa Abbam
TOK Talk; Developmental Psychology, An Exhibition.pptxTuesday 16th September 2025
Dr Grainger spoke about Knowledge and the Knower studies in Developmental Psychology, linking with a range of TOK concepts and giving ideas for how you might present objects in your TOK Exhibition using ideas from academic resarch
2_AoK - The Arts_DK_reduced.pptxTuesday 10th June - Mr Kell shared his expereineces and ideas to give an insight into the Scope and Methods and Tools (Ways of Knowing) in the AOK The Arts
Economics ToK Presentation.pptxTuesday 3rd June - Mr Funcasta - Methods and Tools in Human Science (Economics). How do we Know?
Tuesday 4th March 2025 - John Edward, Head of Operations, Scottish Council on Global Affairs spoke on Knowledge & Politics
Tuesday 18th February 2025
Andrew Bradley (St Leonards graduate) spoke about Knowledge & Politics and the Media, particulalry focussing on the Methods & Tools used to generate knowledge in the media world. As a broadcast journalist Andrew has worked on a number of political shows for a range of media outlets.
Tuesday 3rd December 2024
Prof. Vivienne Wild University of St Andrews (School of Physics and Astronomy) talked about hte Methods and Tools used to change our knowldge and discover new planets and galaxies in astrophysics. Prof Wild finished her talk by dsicsussing the Ethics of astrophysics, highlighting the group Astronomers for Planet Earth
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2024-11 Talk St Leonards K Smillie FINAL.pdfTuesday 18th November
Dr Karen Smillie talked about the research conducted in her lab on Huntingdon's Disease. She discussed the Methods and Tools used to make new discoveries within the AOK Natual Science and how Ethics is taken into consideration when designing and conducting scienctific research.
Keep your audience close, but your writers.pptxTuesday 12th November 2024
Zina Gharakhani (St Leonards graduate 2021) talked about the AOK Hisotry, looking at the origins of thought and knowing a bit about the writers who shape what we think.
Theory of Knowledge St Leonard's Talk.pptxTuesday 10th September 2024
Josie Ferguson spoke about the process of researching her new book 'The Silence In Between' which looks at life for women in 1960's Berlin.
Josie discussed the importance of Art (Literature) in enabling us to view historical events from different perspectives
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