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Censorship & Rebellion

A recent international philosophy conference in Istanbul was unusual in being entirely for high school students. Four British students report on a cross-cultural meeting of young minds debating very topical matters.

St Dunstan’s College is a co-educational independent school in Catford, south-east London, offering the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma to Sixth Formers. The Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is a compulsory subject forming the core of a student’s IB Diploma. It encourages students to critically examine different ways of knowing, and the role of knowledge in their own culture and in the cultures of others, in line with the international nature of the course. Last October seventeen IB Diploma students from St Dunstan’s had the opportunity to travel to Istanbul to attend an International Conference on Knowledge and Culture. As well as the students from London, schools from Turkey, Greece, Sweden, Norway, Jordan and Poland were represented at the conference.

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