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    This document discusses how the BP oil spill relates to TOK (Theory of Knowledge). It analyzes the spill through the lenses of different ways of knowing such as perception, language, reason, and emotion. It discusses biases that can arise from each way of knowing. It also examines the spill through areas of knowledge like ethics, politics, morality, and science. The document aims to apply TOK concepts to analyze the challenges faced by BP and lessons that can be learned from the spill.

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    This document discusses how the BP oil spill relates to TOK (Theory of Knowledge). It analyzes the spill through the lenses of different ways of knowing such as perception, language, reason, and emotion. It discusses biases that can arise from each way of knowing. It also examines the spill through areas of knowledge like ethics, politics, morality, and science. The document aims to apply TOK concepts to analyze the challenges faced by BP and lessons that can be learned from the spill.

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    This document discusses how the BP oil spill relates to TOK (Theory of Knowledge). It analyzes the spill through the lenses of different ways of knowing such as perception, language, reason, and emotion. It discusses biases that can arise from each way of knowing. It also examines the spill through areas of knowledge like ethics, politics, morality, and science. The document aims to apply TOK concepts to analyze the challenges faced by BP and lessons that can be learned from the spill.

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    BP Oil Spill BM TOK

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    This document discusses how the BP oil spill relates to TOK (Theory of Knowledge). It analyzes the spill through the lenses of different ways of knowing such as perception, language, reason, and emotion. It discusses biases that can arise from each way of knowing. It also examines the spill through areas of knowledge like ethics, politics, morality, and science. The document aims to apply TOK concepts to analyze the challenges faced by BP and lessons that can be learned from the spill.

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    TOK IN BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

    LEENA PALEKAR
    Queensland Academy for Creative Industries, Brisbane, Australia.

    ABSTRACT
    In this document, I have related the BP oil spill to TOK.
    Tony
    Hayward,
    who joined
    BP n 1982
    took on
    challenging
    assignments
    from North
    Sea offshore
    BP has
    rigs to the
    attempted to
    BP’s CEO jungles of
    avoid human
    Tony South
    rights
    Hayward America
    problems in
    asked to guarding its
    accept the oil-drilling
    blame for the BP has invested
    operations in
    oil spill, in renewable
    poor
    being forced energies
    countries
    to resign

    Does the study


    of issues in
    How has BP
    Humanities
    being
    leave you with a
    challenged?
    responsibility?
    (relate areas
    of knowledge
    and ways of
    knowing)

    Knowledge Claim – Methodology 1 (Ways of Knowing)

    PERCEPTION: (live video images)


    Useful: * evidence of failure of ‘Top Kill’ procedure

    * ‘Static Kill’ procedure perceived as a permanent


    solution

    Bias: * BP’s top executives ‘uncertain’ about plugging the oil


    spill

    LANGUAGE: (media’s hasty generalisation, Barack Obama’s


    comment)

    Useful:* Communication, British Petroleum to BP, Beyond


    Petroleum for BP

    Bias:* Propaganda (picture of Hayward in baseball cap and


    sunglasses, sailing around the Isle of Wight, his comment “I would
    like my life back” – just six weeks after the oil rig explosion)
    * Emotive wording of Barack Obama comparing the oil spill
    to the 9/11 attacks

    REASON: (logic/experiments)

    Useful:* Scientific Method

    Bias:* Rationalising bias

    EMOTION (damage to beaches, marshes, wildlife and fishing)

    Useful:* Rapid Cognition

    Bias:* Prejudice
    Knowledge Claim – Methodology 2 (Areas of Knowledge)

    ETHICS – companies putting profits ahead of public good

    POLITICS – United States versus United Kingdom, almost 23,000 of


    its employees are American, compared with 10,000 Brits, American
    firms owned the rig which exploded, the Board of Directors split
    evenly between British and American nationals

    MORALITY - putting at stake the livelihoods of innocent people

    SCIENCE – implications on marine life, coastline, beaches,


    environment

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