Reading from my mobile with big smiles. Can't exactlycontroll a tiny touch
screen that well in a flash but in short I feel westernisation has really
brainwashed most of the foreign cultures of thinking. But perhaps it has
forced non western cultures to assimilate a foreign culture and change.
Often at the cost of loosing one's original line of thinking. Often a
consciouseffort is needed to keep ones own culture. Can't type anymore like
I want to but I am happy that Jinan has posted this!

Learning shouldcs be as free as a playing child whose minds are left open
and be unexploited for exploration.

Karen Fu



On Mar 7, 2013 10:09 PM, "Jinan K B" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Friends
>
> The construct of self has been my study for the past 30 odd years. It
> started with addressing how education in the non-western world is an
> attempt to westernize and colonize the sensibilities of the learner.
> Learner is a wrong term. Conditioning is the right term. In my attempt
> understand and deal with my own colonized mind set I have been studying
> beauty, cognition, culture. Children etc
>
> My life with illiterate people gave a clearer picture on natural
cognition.
> The illiterates we talk about are the ones who are using the natural,
> biological process of cognition as they use sense, observation- the
> cognitive tools and  concrete phenomenon they see, experience as their
> cognitive source and self- organization of the cognitive inputs for
> comprehension. Through insight the knowing happens and the reasoning and
> language comes in communication.
>
> The being-ness of the literate mind is a total mental construct as
> perception and the cognitive apparatus has been totally impacted by
> conditioning and control. Individuality itself is the result of one such
> construct by the literate mind. The fragmentation, alienation etc is the
> result of that. The right brain left brain divide is another result of
> wrong cognition due to dependence on language.
>
> The cognitive conditions in literate and non- literates (sense literates)
> are so different from each other and the respective being-ness is
> constructed by this cognitive conditions.
>
> Freedom, no teaching, no instruction, condition of trust, activities that
> connects one to primary natural phenomenon is the general condition in
> sense literate society where the innate and natural being-ness of the
child
> is awakened. Child is naturally open, observant of life around, non-
> egoistic as no one builds it nor break it. No praise no punishments. The
> self- initiative and self- motivated nature of all natural learning beings
> work naturally.
>
> The literate conditions are totally opposite. Control, instruction,
> distrust of environment, constant don’ts is what child normally encounters
> and child is constantly taught and is not given the space and time for
> natural awakening.
>
> The literate cultures are constantly dealing with what is known and this
> can be traced to the Guttenberg revolution which heralded the literacy
> movement.
>
> The fundamental difference in the cognitive conditions that exist in these
> two paradigms are that the conditions in literate paradigm conditions and
> the other one awakens the inherent potential.
>
> News from the discoveries of cognitive science and related fields
> definitely demands a total change in the way learning space for children
> are organized.
>
> Our feeble and humble attempt can be seen at
> www.reimaginingschools.wordpress.com
>
> Jinan
>
>
>


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