Debary Elementary School – INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE 1

Apr 2026 · 2nd Semester

The purpose of this course is to make explicit through analysis, comparison, and interdisciplinary integration, the concepts of knowledge and their verification in the disciplines of mathematics, natural sciences, human sciences, history, and in moral, political, and aesthetic judgments. Students will be taught to identify sources of knowledge and evaluate knowledge claims, distinguish between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description, evaluate language as a means of conveying knowledge, construct knowledge claims, analyze formal systems of knowledge, examine the relation of knowledge to value judgments, and distinguish degrees of certainly.