Can someone help me guide me in the creation of a knowledge question for the 4th prescribed title?

[John Lakers]

The prescribed title (from the May 2015 prescribed titles) is: 

 

4. With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape

personal knowledge.

 

I'm looking into Human Sciences and Art as my AoKs, and possibly Perception as my WoK. 

 

For Human Sciences, I will be discussing socialization and conformity, giving real life examples such as Milgram's experiment. In Arts, I will be discussing cultural movements and changes (Impressionism, Neo-Impressionism, Post-Impressionism).

 

I came up with a knowledge question for this prescribed title, and it is: How far does shared knowledge give certainty to personal knowledge?

 

How is this knowledge question? Is it decent to write my TOK essay on?

 

Can you help me create some more knowledge questions for this prescribed title?

 

 

 

[Sandwich]

You don't need to come up with a knowledge question. The question is "With reference to two areas of knowledge discuss the way in which shared knowledge can shape personal knowledge"... all you have to do is answer the question they've given you!! 

 

Trying to invent and then answer a different question of your own is to miss the point of this essay.

 

It is also important to stick quite strictly to TOK in terms of ways of knowing and how we acquire knowledge. That's what they're trying to get you to discuss - how we build up knowledge and how shared knowledge plays a role in altering personal knowledge when it comes to acquiring and adjusting our knowledge. You want to give example of this happening. They don't want to know about socialisation and conformity UNLESS you use one of those two things in order to illustrate an example of how we use shared knowledge to shape our personal knowledge (or not) in human sciences. I say this only because I'm worried you might go off topic from what you've said, and just start discussing human sciences or impressionism.