Advantages And Disadvantages Of Ib Theory Of Knowledge

14 March, 2016

IB Theory of knowledge

“Assess the advantages and disadvantages of using models to produce knowledge of the world.”

Models are the mediums to produce knowledge or explain pre-existing knowledge. It also helps one in understanding and extending the knowledge in different AOK’s. For example: a physics teacher will show different types of models to his students to explain the concept of motion and a parent will put different well-mannered people as models in front of his children to explain the importance of basic manners . But some concepts are beyond the use of models such as languages because people cannot understand languages until they learn it. So the use of models will not compulsorily produce knowledge. Sometimes even kids

It’s just the matter of fact that how we can use models as an advantage for us or how can we use them as a disadvantage for the world. According to me, models are mostly used in Religious Knowledge systems because people present different models of Gods to represent their religions and cultures for convincing their future generations to follow them. Presenting models to represent religions and cultures is useful to an extent as it creates an imagination in an individual’s mind, helps him to understand its importance and the story behind it. However, sometimes models can confuse an individual by forcing him to understand what others want him to understand in religious knowledge systems whether it is right or wrong. For example: ISIS, a terrorist group that gathers manpower by showing models to common people to change their knowledge about religions and by forcing them to understand the theories against the world that are not even true which can lead to the formation of a great army against the world. This is another way of using models that is a big disadvantage to produce knowledge of the world. We just discussed about the two ways in which models can work. Models can work as an advantage while they can also as a

For example: If an individual thinks that it is impossible to score 95% in mathematics then it is his psychological state of mind that can never be changed until some examples of intelligent students will be shown to him as models because use of some models will definitely motivate him to score above 95%. There are a number of disadvantages of using models to produce knowledge of the world that could be considered in Human Science because sometimes wrong models are shown to an individual whom an individual tries to relate with his life while creating disadvantages for others and his own self. For example: If a number of models will be shown to an individual about how to cheat people to take their advantage then that individual will definitely try to cheat people as he learned from that model because that model will affect his state of mind, thus creating disadvantages for others and his own self in some