(Eileen Dombrowski, from OUP blog) Today, my dear colleagues, I offer you my final contribution to our Theory of Knowledge course. And then it’s time for me to say farewell. I’m retiring.
For convenient access, I’ve compiled below all the posts I’ve done for Theory of Knowledge throughout 2018 into a downloadable document, with a table of contents for quick browsing. I hope you’ll find here some ideas that will stir your own thoughts within our shared enterprise. It’s an ambitious project we’ve taken on – to teach our students to think more clearly and to give them a vast comparative overview of knowledge! Not an undertaking for the faint of heart! Fortunately, it’s great fun to go romping through big ideas with students who are ready for them. Continue reading
Cunning criminality is nothing new. But the “faithful duplicity” of some recent forgeries has stunned art experts and shaken the markets and social organizations that envelop this area of knowledge. Stories of stolen fortunes and international detective work however, can kick-start student interest as we use fake art to raise questions about real art. The TOK questions scream to be asked: What is a “real” work of art if a forgery is indistinguishable? What gives works of art their value?
(Eileen Dombrowski from 
Activating TOK 