Knowledge Heroes summarizes the ideas of more than 100 influential thinkers from the past and present, who feature in our three different full-length TOK courses.
There’s a brief bio for each thinker, a key quote, and a discussion of how their work and ideas relate to the TOK course. Related thinkers are also indicated, with a link provided to a relevant lesson, and other media sources that can be used to explore them.
About the resource
Knowledge Heroes is a 38-page PDF introducing students to the women and men who have done most to shape the way we think about and interact with the world. Written in a clear and engaging way, it brings key concepts to life through the words of the very thinkers who developed them, linking them to the different aspects of the course.
It gives students the intellectual ammunition to produce authoritative assessments, helping them enrich essays and exhibition commentaries with the insights of a wide range of thinkers. It also supports DP integration, providing an amazing library of voices to prompt debate about the nature of knowledge across TOK and other subjects.
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