Philosophical underpinning imperative to success of CBC

Competency-Based Curriculum Trainer and a Teacher Virginiah Wangui takes pupils through CBC based-Assessment at City Primary School on Friday, Sept 27, 2019. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

After years of ruminating over knowledge claims from various sources and authorities (teachers, mentors, thought leaders etc), it is worth taking a step back to ask yourself the ‘million-dollar question’; ‘How do we know what we claim to know?’ This question is central to the Theory of Knowledge (TOK) course within the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), but it is relevant outside the confines of this curriculum as well. Today’s world is in need of thinkers.

Thinkers to solve complex problems facing humanity today. Thinkers to create and invent. Thinkers with the wherewithal to propagate tolerance and embrace diversity. And as such, we need to nurture minds to learn the skill of thinking at a young age. To explore knowledge. To question what they hold to be true, interrogate their belief systems, to learn, unlearn and relearn. To understand that truth is relative, and that their path isn’t the only path.