A World
What do we owe each other, and how do I know my own mind?
What this World is
Self-knowledge and ethical reasoning are the capabilities most strongly associated with a life that goes well, and the ones most reliably left to chance by conventional schooling.
The Human World is one of ten permanent Worlds in the WSA knowledge architecture. It is not a theme and it does not rotate. Any interest that genuinely opens onto the questions below enters here, and keeps entering here, at increasing difficulty, for as long as the child stays interested.
Knowledge
Traditional school subjects this World covers
Capabilities
The questions
Progression
Age is a signal, never the determinant. Each band describes an intellectual character, and what would genuinely demonstrate it.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Offers comfort unprompted.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Explains why something was unfair.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Judges two incidents differently on intent.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Changes a plan because of a consequence they spotted.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Argues a position they do not hold, accurately.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Identifies the principle their opponent is using.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
A position that survives its strongest objection.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
A case where two frameworks conflict, and a defended choice.
Knowledge
Skills
What demonstrates it
Philosophical writing treated as argument rather than opinion.
Ways in
An ordinary childhood fascination is the doorway. These are worked examples, not the full set.
Connections
Genuine intellectual relationships only. Real questions do not respect disciplinary borders.
Afterwards
Qualification crosswalk
A mapping, never a claim. WSA does not award, accredit or guarantee admission to anything.
TOK's treatment of knowledge claims maps directly onto this World's later bands.
Perspective analysis and argued research are the assessed skills.
Overlap is partial; the WSA work is substantially more demanding than the curriculum requires.
The other Worlds