{"product_id":"30-for-30-tok-james-cartwright-9798182142489","title":"30 for 30 Tok: IB Creativity, Activity, Service: The Thinking Behind the Component","description":"CAS is the IB's most unusual component: compulsory but ungraded, concerned with personal growth rather than academic achievement, and built on the premise that direct experience in the world produces knowledge that no classroom can replicate. This book asks what kind of knowledge that is, whether the programme delivers it, and what the attempt reveals about what education is ultimately for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e30 For 30 TOK: IB Creativity, Activity, Service\u003c\/i\u003e is the twenty-ninth book in the 30 For 30 TOK series, which pairs thirty IB diploma subjects with thirty searching questions about the nature of the knowledge it produces. This volume focuses on the IB CAS programme, asking questions about experiential learning, the ethics of service, the epistemology of reflection, and the tensions that arise when personal development becomes a requirement assessed by an institution. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the question of whether short-term service primarily benefits the server to the epistemology of CAS reflection documentation, from the ethics of voluntourism to the question of whether mandatory participation in a programme designed to produce authenticity is a coherent educational idea, the thirty questions in this book press on what CAS is and what it is trying to do. Sample responses model what honest, rigorous thinking about experiential learning and its purposes looks like in practice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDesigned for IB students navigating CAS, CAS coordinators and supervisors, TOK educators, and anyone interested in the big questions about service, experience, and what education is ultimately for.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Cartwright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798182142489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"James Cartwright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173991063807,"sku":"9798182142489","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/30-for-30-tok-james-cartwright-9798182142489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}