Curriculum for nationalism secularism and universalisim and their interrelation with special references to Tagore and Krishnamurti
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Meaning of knowledge:
• facts, information, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education;
the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
• awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation.
Characteristics of Knowledge
• We often talk of knowledge as an asset. But compared to other assets, such as
physical assets and finance, it has some distinctive characteristics:
• Non-depleting: unlike other resources that are managed because of their scarcity
value, the more knowledge is used, the more is generated; we all know about
'information overload'!
• Win-win sharing: if you share your knowledge with another person, the first person
does not lose it
• Chunkable and portable: it can be summarized, compressed or divided in manageable
units for easier transfer and management
• Transferable: it can move from place to place; explicit knowledge, in particular, can
easily be distributed via networks to many people
• Mobile: it tends tends to leak and diffuse, either as people move jobs, talk or through
technical reproduction and transmission
• Substitutable: in many situations it can replace physical and other forms of resource;
thus telecommunications reduces the need for travel or physical transport (of
documents).
Types of Knowledge (Education)
• Personal:The first kind of knowledge is personal knowledge, or knowledge by
acquaintance. This is the kind of knowledge that we are claiming to have when we say
things like “I know Mozart’s music.” Knowledge in this sense is to do with being
familiar with something: in order to know Amy, one must have met her; in order to
know fear, one must have experienced it. Personal knowledge thus seems to involve
coming to know a certain number of propositions in a particular way.
• Procedural:The second kind of knowledge is procedural knowledge, or knowledge
how to do something. People who claim to know how to juggle, or how to drive, are
not simply claiming that they understand the theory involved in those activities.
Rather, they are claiming that actually possess the skills involved, that they are able
todo these things. Knowing how to drive involves possessing a skill, being able to do
something, which is very different to merely knowing a collection of facts.
• Procedural Knowledge :One view of procedural knowledge is that it is knowledge
that manifests itself in the doing of something. As such it is reflected in motor or
manual skills and in cognitive or mental skills.
• Propositional : The third kind of knowledge, the kind that philosophers care about
most, is propositional knowledge, or knowledge of facts. This is knowledge of facts,
knowledge that such and such is the case.
Types of Knowledge (Education)
• SITUATIONAL: knowledge about situations
• CONCEPTUAL: knowledge about facts
• STRATEGIC :knowledge is a term used by some to refer to what might be termed
know-when and know-why.