Optional theme
Knowledge and politics
How political arrangements decide which knowledge is produced, funded, taught and believed, and how claims to knowledge are used to justify the exercise of power.
Situations for knowledge and politics
All 12 situationsReal cases with an affinity for this theme, for a teacher planning by theme.
- A song as a political argumentAfrica
- The satellite data that cost a director his jobLatin America
- When a region goes offlineIndia
- A film, a queen, and a fight over the pastIndia
- The music the state could not stopThe Middle East and North Africa
- The right to ask the state what it knowsIndia
- One event, two national textbooksEast Asia
- The textbook called Vedic MathematicsIndia
A school selects two of the five optional themes alongside the core theme. All six themes.