RCHK ToK Exhibition
What is ToK?
The IB says that ToK is the place where students reflect on "the nature, scope and limitations of knowledge and the process of knowing." So basically, in ToK we think about how knowledge is produced, acquired, shared and the limitations of these processes.
In the ToK Exhibition, we explore one of these prompts provided by the IB.
Students may choose to do so this by exhibiting three objects that exemplify aspects of the chosen prompt in relation to one of six themes:
Knowledge and Politics
Knowledge and Language
Knowledge and Technology
Knowledge and the Knower
Religious Knowledge Systems
Indigenous Knowledge Systems
At the same time, students may wish to explore the prompt in relation to one of five areas of knowledge:
Mathematics
The Natural Sciences
The Human Sciences
History
The Arts
This website showcases our students' initial thoughts. They will develop these ideas and submit to the IB in writing at a later date. We hope that this website will allow them to receive as much feedback from our community as possible as they prepare.
What Are The Exhibition Components?
Does the exhibition successfully show how TOK manifests in the world around us?
The exhibition clearly identifies three objects and their specific real-world contexts. Links between each of the three objects and the selected IA prompt are clearly made and well-explained.
There is a strong justification of the particular contribution that each individual object makes to the exhibition. All, or nearly all, of the points are well-supported by appropriate evidence and explicit references to the selected IA prompt.
​What Do We Care About In The ToK Exhibition?
Exhibition Skills
The ability to...
...exemplify an abstract knowledge question
...select an aspect of a prompt
...choose objects that are specific (date, author, place stamp)
...imaginatively select objects that can do a lot of work in exemplifying the prompt with (relatively) few words
...discriminate between better and worse examples
...justify the link to the prompt more generally, providing evidence if necessary
...to curate a whole exhibition that has some sort of coherence
...describe the links between objects and the prompt clearly and succinctly
...provide context to an example to enable the link to (an aspect of) the prompt