Aims & Objectives to encourage students to make connections between academic disciplines by exploring underlying concepts and by identifying similarities and differences in the methods of inquiry used in different areas of knowledge to encourage students to be more aware of their own perspectives and to reflect critically on their own beliefs and assumptions identify and explore links between knowledge questions and the world around us Key Questions Is it possible to eliminate the effect of the observer in the pursuit of knowledge in the human sciences? (Perspectives) What values determine what counts as legitimate inquiry in the human sciences? Can knowledge be divorced from the values embedded in the process of creating it? (Ethics) Agenda: Read "Body Ritual Among the Nacerima" Assignment: Multimodal Ethnography Project Homework: Multimodal Ethnography Prewrite Due 9/15 EE: Revised 3000-word draft PAST DUE Schedule your 2nd Formal Reflection Session! End-of-Unit Blog ...
CHS IB Theory of Knowledge, Year 2