Knowledge Conveyed from a Subject - Geography

Pick one of your IB or ESF Advanced Diploma subjcts (other than ToK), What sorts of 'knowledge' and/or 'truths' does this subject convey, Blog your response in about 250 words.

Subject Chosen: Geography

In geography, it seems like it is only about maps and ‘geological earthy stuff’. But some knowledge that we are absorbing includes being able to identify and explain the characteristics of the systems of the Earth and even being able to analyze the interactions within and between these systems.

The knowledge or truths we gain is how different factors and inputs can change the environment around us and how all of these different factors correlate with each other. Geography requires us to think critically and thinking is a part of knowledge. There is also a truth side to geography and it include laws of nature which defines different parts of geology such as layers of the earth or plate tectonics.

Although some argue that because of too many assumptions or generalizations are made, geography cannot be knowledge because it is not a definite truth, but as we have come to learn in TOK that there is no absolute truth and that knowledge is finding out what we don’t already know.

So throughout geography, we are given evidence and we use what we can interpret from the data, think critically and find out what we don’t yet know about the subject we are studying. Hence knowledge this subject conveys is similar to some parts of philosophy by using logic and evidence to try and come to a satisfied answer.