Theory of Knowledge
TOK ESSAY EXAMPLES 4
Are visual representations always helpful in the communication of knowledge? Discuss with reference to the human sciences and mathematics.
“A strong visual imagination acts as a magnet to draw the visualised into reality.”
― Anupama Garg, The Tantric Curse[1]
While pursuing my learning during middle school, I started viewing videos on YouTube and noticed the impact it created on me. I was able to comprehend my knowledge much better and was able to memorize it for a long time. Along with this, I always used to get fascinated with visuals represented in my textbook; the colors popping from the pictures helped me boost my imagination and articulate and communicate my knowledge. Visual representation is what we see in the form of vivid images or hallucinations, adding on advertisements, symbols, figures, and videos, to name a few. In contrast, Communication is a two-way process that builds a mutual understanding between people. The first communication was through cave painting by the homo sapiens, which is the best example of how visual representations help communicate knowledge.
Another example of Morden Day’s visual representation helping in communicating knowledge is the Oscar-winning animated movie “Encanto “, released in 2021, which was fabulously made with visual representation and conveyed moral lessons like the importance of communicating and loving people’s flaws, etc. An Austrian energy drink firm, “Red Bull,” was sued for false advertisement that its products improve performance, focus, and response time, allowing it to maintain a permanent price for its misleading claims. Therefore visual representation doesn’t consistently articulate correct knowledge. [2]
In my essay, I will talk about “Are visual representations always helpful in the communication of knowledge? Discuss concerning the human sciences and mathematics” from the help of the given areas of knowledge, the first being mathematics followed by human science.
Engaging the AOKs is vital since human science and math are strongly related to the dimensions of visual representation of learning engagement, as stated in the title of my essay.
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