Knowledge:- Knowledge and its transmission is a main concern of education.To acquire knowledge is to become aware of experience structured, organized and made meaningful in a specific way.In the most common understanding, knowledge includes the beliefs about matters of facts (things, objects, events), about relationships between facts, and about principles, laws, theories that are at work in the nature and society. It also represents our understanding about the relationships; the relationship of the knower with the known. In other words, it is the relationship of the subject with the object.✓ Knowledge and its intensity depend on the relationship between the knower and the known. Knowledge includes the fact which is gained through experience or association.
In the school context, knowledge is the sum of conceptions,ideas, laws, and propositions established and tested as correct reflections of the phenomenon.✓It is also believed that knowledge can’t be defined as it is the sum total of many phenomenon and definitions. But, in spite of this, philosophers have made an attempt to define knowledge. Plato has examined three definitions of knowledge which are as under:
✓ Knowledge is perception or sensation;
✓Knowledge is true belief;
✓ Knowledge is true belief accompanied by a rational ground.
Plato finally called knowledge as ‘Justified truth’, and Dewey denotes knowledge as ‘inference from truth’.
✓ According to The National Curriculum Framework (2005), “Knowledge can be conceived as experience organized through language into patterns of thought (or structures of concepts), thus creating meaning, which in turn helps us to understand the world we live in.
✓✓Distinction between information, knowledge, belief and truth
Information :-It is raw data; It is discrete; Pre-meaning stage of knowledge; Prerequisite to knowledge; Preliminary level of knowledge; It is about facts of known; Publicly available.
Belief and truth :- Belief is personal and primarily subjective feeling and expectation in a person, power or other entity, though shared by others; Could be verified or beyond verification; This includes ‘the’ truth, and everything else we accept as ‘true’ for ourselves from a cognitive point of view.Verified knowledge; Truth is a property of beliefs, and derivatively of sentences which express beliefs.
✓Truth is simply what is, whether I am aware of it, or whether I feel it is true or not.
✓Belief is what I feel is true.
✓Knowledge is that which I am aware of.
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