To build up their knowledge, people use different sources of information. This knowledge could either be shared or personal knowledge. According to the research statement, there are only two ways of producing knowledge which are passive observation and active experiment. Knowledge gained through passive observation is that something which a person does not fully engage in its production but rather receives from other sources. However, knowledge gained through active experiment is that which a person gains through carrying out experiments. Knowledge is a familiarity with someone or something, which can include facts, information, descriptions or skills acquired through experience or education. However, William Starbucks the author of “The production of knowledge: The challenge of social science research” says, “Knowledge is what people say it is.” Indeed Starbucks is right for everything that one is familiar with is declared as knowledge. Knowledge is therefore debatable hence why there cannot be only two ways of producing knowledge.
The knowledge issue addressed by this statement is thus, “What are the different ways that human beings can produce knowledge and
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With religious knowledge systems, there is what people call Christianity where the Bible is referred to as the holy book because people have placed their belief in it that it is powerful in connecting them with their , God. From my experience in the study of Religious knowledge in school, I personally did not take it as a study as such but instead the absorption of information from the Bible to the brain. This is because, in as much as discussions were held to comment on what we think from what we had learned in accordance to the Bible, we were not allowed to argue against it nor change anything about it but instead, we were “forced” to believe that what is said in the Bible is true and nothing more. And indeed we