Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma Full Colour Edition

Van de Lagemaat has a monopoly on the market! I am sure there have been a plethora of other teachers/professors that could write a textbook and give as good if not better effort. By only having one guy give his thoughts IB is short-changing everybody. I would suggest looking at college texts to augment rather than feeding this man's one-trick pony.

International baccalaureate education is catching on in the United States. It was a rigorous and integrated approach to learning that helps students see the connections between disciplines. The math chapter is particularly enlightening showing us how math can be looked at as a study of patterns in the world.

I've been teaching for 15 years, but this fall will be my first experience teaching in a school with IB curriculum. In addition to IB training, this textbook has been the best asset that I've had in preparing for teaching this class.

This book does little to help understand the underpinnings of the Ib curriculum and less about how that curriculum fits into an over all concept of curriculum

Lots of good information and ideas. Suggest you cross-reference with other books, and pull in videos from TED talks and other visuals as well. Good ideas for short activities.

I love it.

My school district is working on implementing the International Baccalaureate Program. After doing some research and ordering the required book for the Diploma Program this is nothing more than Marxist brainwashing. The stupid situational questions in here are ridiculous. To have students to question what they have grown up to be true is ludicrous. I am sorry 2+2=4, always.And Jesus Christ is and will always be the Son of God and only way to HEAVEN.

I used this book as the primary text in TOK for two years before convincing the department to discard it. The book is an odd hodgepodge of ideas and theories, and in that regard does an adequate job of introducing students to ideas. The book also provides references to relevant readings and sources. But the book provides little depth and fails to encourage or generate critical inquiry. My department's experience of the book was that it actually discouraged critical thinking because of its "catalogue of information" style: students would merely parrot the wide but shallow range of material. We teachers put so much effort into finding relevant ancillary readings and drafting interpretive questions that we finally realized we had not need for the book at all.

Bought this as school book for a teenager but was so fascinated while leafing through it that I am considering reading it myself.

Very good

Full colour is a worthless and expensive addition. The book needs to go beyond the "assessment" side of the IB and focus on the importance of the purpose of educating citizens of all ages to understand "ways of knowing" as an essential basis of lifelong education.

Although the curriculum is outdated, the book presents many interesting approaches to the ways of knowing. Would recommend buying just to enrich your understanding, however is deemed obselete by the IB's current curriculum.

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