My Review

I am not in possesion of this book. If you do own this book (or buy this book in the future) please submit a review! 100% of reviews will be accepted, both positive, negative and neutral. Reviews with bad language and spelling errors will be edited accordingly.

The Extended Essay and ToK components are at the core of the International Baccalaureate, along with CAS. The Theory of Knowledge and Extended Essay components of the course can count towards up to three ‘bonus points’ towards your final IB Diploma grade!

The book is available at £16 in the UK and $31 in the USA and elsewhere in the world.

My Review

This book is being delivered soon! I’ll have a full review up as soon as I have had a full look through it! For now I’ve been having a look at the Sample Chapters, see below, and I’m liking the look of the book so far (The reason I bought it in the first place), and also because it’s Heinemann =D.  I especially like the way the book is set out, see contents list below. If you own the book, please submit your review for the book using the comments section!

You can download these two sample chapters from the book, provided by Heinemann.
Chaper One
Chaper Two

Contents of Book
Introduction
1. Your knower profile
2. Key ideas and vocabulary
3. Knowledge
4. Belief
5. Certainty
6. Truth
7. The ideal knower
8. Ways of knowing
9. Perception
10. Emotion
11. Language
12. Reason
13. Areas of knowledge
14. Mathematics
15. Science
16. Social science
17. History
18. Ethics
19. Art
20. The learner profile
Themes of global significance
Index

This book is available from £23 and $45.

The series of ‘Heinemann Baccalaureate’ books has changed names to ‘Pearson Baccalaureate’. This post has been updated accordingly.

My Review

Theory of Knowledge, sometimes referred to ToK or T.O.K, is one of those subjects; You either love it or hate it. I personally hate it, and for this reason I need as much help as I can get!

The textbook provides all the core details you should know and include in presentations and essay. Knowledge issues, ways of knowing, areas of knowledge and critical thinking are all featured throughout the book, using these in the assessments are a must to get a good mark!

The book includes lots of little activities to get you thinking more about the Theory of Knowledge and there are a lot of external sources, including newspaper reports, pictures and useful diagrams.

There is an entire chapter on assessment. This is probably the most important part of the book! The assessment for Theory of Knowledge is in the form of a presentation and an essay, counting for 33% and 66% of the grade you receive, respectively. The chapter provides lots of really helpful tips on how to approach the presentation and the essay and what you should aim to include to hit the higher grade boundaries.

This book, like all others in the Oxford University Press series, is available for around £18 or $38. I would recommend you get this book if you struggle with ToK, I would also recommend the Pearson’s Baccalaureate Theory of Knowledge book. Both are useful in their own ways, although, I prefer the Pearson’s book.

Name: Theory of Knowledge for the IB Diploma
Author: Richard van de Lagemaat
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Pages: 480
ISBN: 0521542987

My Review

I do not own this book! Therefore, it is up to you to review it for the benefit of all other IB students! All reviews will help students find the best IB textbooks to help them get the best grade possible for their diploma! The book is available on Amazon if you do not already own it

Although, I have attended a seminar by Richard van de Lagemaat, and what he had to say was very interesting. I can imagine that this book would be a very great book for TOK and will buy it within the coming weeks and submit a review for it then!

The book is available for around £20 or $28.