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What role does imagination play in producing knowledge about the world,…
What role does imagination play in producing knowledge about the world
imagination
definitions
Imagination is defined in a sense as the capacity to form a mental representation of something without the stimulus of sense experience.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (philosopher) called imagination "essentially vital" and claimed that it "dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to re-create"
contributions
Imagination contributes to our discovery and invention, our images of the world dissolved and recreated, and our potent visions of possible futures.
Imagination has the power, to give us hope, create alternatives, find solutions, and bring into reality the world that in the present is only in our dreams.
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examples
empathy: put yourself into the situation
history: we can't go back to experience
play with imagination to teach you lessons: jesus dying on the cross paints violent image in christian children's head --> all they know is good and evil (knowledge about the world)
value today
In daily life, imagination has a particularly prominent role in entertainment for example, fictional films or television programmes.
The free range of imagination in the arts also has its confines of various kinds - sometimes in content, sometimes in medium, sometimes in form.
object 1: soul (disney movie)
presents the idea of "the great before"
develop concept of life before earth
appeals to non religious people
https://www.clastify.com/tok/exhibition/62d465dbefe3ca0013f9a674
object 2: Image of my younger self playing dress up
perception of the world from child's POV lets us develop
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knowledge on their cognitive development
object 3: qualifications (degree, certificates etc)
qualifications relate to imagination since it causes us to imagine the future: for example, high-schoolers thinking about what degree they want/ what university they want to go to
this could go both ways: qualifications plays a motivating role when it is seen as a goal which makes high school students work harder
assumptions about people that have lots of qualifications and those who don't have qualifications can create stereotypes among people
However, it plays an obstructive role in producing knowledge about the world by making high school students believe that getting better qualifications is the only way in life. clearly that knowledge is false since life isn't only about academic accomplishments.
imagination could play both an obstructive and motivating role in producing knowledge about the future
tok concepts
imagination
eg: racist people have an imagined perception of people from other races
perspective
culture
value
both positive and negative role (empathy and fear)
what object can i use to develop the empathy point
find a painting/ art piece?! that has cultural knowledge