Student Presentation on –isms or Indigenous
Share your Google Slide / PPT with [email protected] (or Office365 to [email protected]). Create it and share edit rights with your group members. Deadline by Oct 14 1159pm. This is a somewhat aggressively graded 5% of Q2 for a group presentation of 5-7 minutes
TOK Signup Sheets
Suggested PPT format (you can modify as needed, include visuals, etc)
Slide 1-3? = Define the position of this school of thought / thinker / peoples (it’s theories/tenets, which AOKs and/or WOKs it most draws upon OR 12 TOK Concepts OR how the philosophy involves the 4 TOK Knowledge Framework features (scope, tools/methods, perspectives, ethics), its major premises, view of man or the universe, sub-headings of this school of thought – provide quotes from your research or provide 3+ best quotes from the person or that define the school of thought / peoples)
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The advantages to this approach to knowledge/experience and/or The biases or limitations in this approach to knowledge/experience (what counterclaims have been made against this way of thinking??) and/or can list the major figures/advocates for this ISM
Slide 4 = AT LEAST ONE real-world event/examples that this school of thought (indigenous peoples) could be applied to (ex: how would a nihilist view voting in Campaign 2020 or a 500 point drop in the stock market? Or how would a secular humanist / Richard Dawkins view missionary work? OR how would a utilitarian / John Stuart Mill approach surviving a plane crash with limited resources but too many wounded survivors?)
Slide 5 = Which one (or more) of the 6 prompts for the TOK essay could this way of thinking / person be useful for or be a valuable viewpoint to explore in relation to the prompt’s issue(s)? [Give prompt #]
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What is your personal attitude about this –ism or person (and his views)? Any disagreements amongst your group members on anything?
Share your Google Slide / PPT with [email protected] (or Office365 to [email protected]). Create it and share edit rights with your group members. Deadline by Oct 14 1159pm. This is a somewhat aggressively graded 5% of Q2 for a group presentation of 5-7 minutes
TOK Signup Sheets
Suggested PPT format (you can modify as needed, include visuals, etc)
Slide 1-3? = Define the position of this school of thought / thinker / peoples (it’s theories/tenets, which AOKs and/or WOKs it most draws upon OR 12 TOK Concepts OR how the philosophy involves the 4 TOK Knowledge Framework features (scope, tools/methods, perspectives, ethics), its major premises, view of man or the universe, sub-headings of this school of thought – provide quotes from your research or provide 3+ best quotes from the person or that define the school of thought / peoples)
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The advantages to this approach to knowledge/experience and/or The biases or limitations in this approach to knowledge/experience (what counterclaims have been made against this way of thinking??) and/or can list the major figures/advocates for this ISM
Slide 4 = AT LEAST ONE real-world event/examples that this school of thought (indigenous peoples) could be applied to (ex: how would a nihilist view voting in Campaign 2020 or a 500 point drop in the stock market? Or how would a secular humanist / Richard Dawkins view missionary work? OR how would a utilitarian / John Stuart Mill approach surviving a plane crash with limited resources but too many wounded survivors?)
Slide 5 = Which one (or more) of the 6 prompts for the TOK essay could this way of thinking / person be useful for or be a valuable viewpoint to explore in relation to the prompt’s issue(s)? [Give prompt #]
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What is your personal attitude about this –ism or person (and his views)? Any disagreements amongst your group members on anything?
-ism EXAMPLES (reserve one on Google doc link; can reserve the name not the ISM but check with Rohol):
Utilitarianism (John Stuart Mill & Jeremy Bentham)
Empiricism (John Locke & Francis Bacon & David Hume & Thomas Hobbes)
Rationalism (Rene Descartes & Baruch or Benedict de Spinoza)
Relativism (moral relativism or ethical relativism)
Altruism
Humanitarianism or Humanism or Secular Humanism
Behaviorism
Asceticism
Determinism
Egalitarianism
Egoism (Ayn Rand)
Dualism
Existentialism (Friedrich Nietzsche or Søren Kierkegaard or Martin Buber)
Platonism
Taoism
Fatalism
Gnosticism
Hedonism
Idealism (Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel)
Libertarianism
Fascism (or totalitarianism)
Marxism (Karl Marx)
Capitalism (Adam Smith)
Nihilism
Absurdism
Pantheism
Pragmatism (Charles Sanders Peirce or William James)
Transcendentalism
Aestheticism
Agnosticism
Anarchism
Perspectivism
Epicureanism
Stoicism
Meliorism (social meliorist)
Social Darwinism
Solipsism
Naïve Realism
Collectivism
Contextualism
Deontologism
Objectivism
Neo-Platonism
Cognitivism
Constructivism (Jean Piaget)
Immaterialsm (or subjective idealism) (George Berkeley)
modern atheism: (Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens or Daniel Dennett)
Or see me if you have another school of thought you are interested in examining (check below links for ideas) http://phrontistery.info/isms.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_philosophical_isms
http://www.ismbook.com/ismlist.html
Indigenous/TRIBES (CAN PICK ONE NOT ON THIS LIST but check with Rohol first)
Scanned List of Ethnic Groups of the World
pick one from the Native Peoples map
Yanomamo
Mughals
Mongols
Goths (Visigoths in Spain, Ostrogoths in Italy, etc)
Huns
Toba
Easter Island
Incas
Mayans
Ming dynasty
Inuit
Kwakiutl
Montagnais
Curripaco
Jivaro
Matis
Kulina
Fuegians
Ache
Mehinaku
Mebengokre
Canela
Dagara
Asante
Kung!
Zulu
Nayar
Mosuo
Lusi/Huli/Mae Enga/Dugum Dani/Gebusi/Marind-anim
Minangkabau
Peoples of the Anaconda
Wiwa
Barasana
Penan
Waoranit
Taino (of Cuba)
Maori
Han (of China)
Piraha tribe
FYI only PARADIGM SHIFTERS
Copernicus’s heliocentric view of the universe
Einstein’s theory of relativity
Heisenberg’s quantum mechanics
Freud’s theory of the unconscious
Wegener’s continental drift (vs the idea of land bridges)