BEd English Sem-II

CuS 2: Knowledge and Curriculum

Knowledge:
Difference between Knowledge
and Other Concepts
Unit-1 Epistemology and Basics of
Knowledge
Dr Rajnikant Dodiya
Asst.Professor, HMPIETR
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Knowledge and Information

• It resides in the • Much more refined data
user…happens only when that is useful for some form
human experience and of analysis
insight is applied to data • Processed data which is
and information formalized, captured and
explicated and can easily be
• Actionable information packaged into reusable
which often emerges in form.
minds of people through
their experiences
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Knowledge and Information

• It is information with • It is data with context
meaning • It is flow of massages
• It is created by the very • For information you don’t
flow of information need cognitive ability
• To get knowledge, you need
some cognitive and
analytical ability

Knowledge and Belief
• Knowledge is a mental
process
• It is defined as a justified
true belief
• It depends on truth, facts
and logical foundation
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• Belief is a mental attitude
towards something
• It is a subjective requirement
for knowledge; if we know
something is true then we
must believe it, but just
because we believe it, it
does not make it true
• It is accepted by a person
without any base or fact

Knowledge and Skill
• Knowledge is only mental
process
• It comes from various
resources
• It is abstract and cannot be
observed in concrete form
• It shows truth and facts.
• It is having vast scope
• It can be distributed / given
• It can be learnt by books
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• Skill is mental and physical
process
• It needs training and practice
• It can be observed in its
procedural form
• It shows a person’s ability for
doing something
• It is limited and specific
• It can be taught
• It is developed with the help of
trainers or experts
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Local and Universal Knowledge

• Based on experience and limited • Based on experiments and
• Often tested over centuries of theories
use
• Standardized and accepted by
• Adapted to the local culture and
all
environment
• Embedded in community • Can be used by all and at
practices, institutions, everywhere
relationships and rituals • It is unlimited knowledge
• Held by individuals or
communities
• Dynamic and changing
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Concrete and Abstract Knowledge

• Knowledge about existed • Knowledge produced by logic
present and past things and thinking and not by
• It is based on sense senses
experience • It is related to philosophical
• It is logically true at thinking
sometimes
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Theoretical and Practical Knowledge

• Knowledge produced after • Knowledge produced after
logical thinking and theories experiments
• One can get it just by reading • One gets it only after
books, listening to lectures experiments based on
• It shows – “I know” theories
• It shows – “How do I know?”
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Contextual and Textual Knowledge

• Knowledge produced in the • Knowledge narrated or
incidents happened among published in books, graphical
any situations, occasions and paintings, other reading
reality material, etc.
• It has context of any physical, • Textual analysis,
social and emotional interpretation of any text or
environment around us as literary writing, etc.
well as community
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School and out of School Knowledge

• Formal knowledge
• With objectives
• Can be positive
• Examined and evaluated
• Knowledge got at school can
be used outside
• Informal knowledge
• Got from family, friends,
surroundings
• Natural and without objectives
• Can be positive or negative
• Not evaluated or checked
• Can be useful in living the life