Everyone constructs their world based on their experiences, which includes what they are told about them.
For example, children do not know that, when, and to whom they were born. They learn this later. They are born into narratives about who they are.
As experiments have shown, a rudimentary understanding of language starts in the womb of the mother. To claim that there are experiences independent of language is largely a myth. Inasmuch as much as what we know is related to the consequences of our actions, there is of course a huge difference between what an unborn baby can do and what designers can accomplish.
But to claim that children learn about the world by experiencing it directly is not sustainable in view of major cultural differences among constructions of the world.
Klaus
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> On May 7, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Jinan K B <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Friends
>
> I have uploaded a paper at academia.edu on the topic of what and how
> children learn naturally as a discussion paper. Hope some of you will
> find this meaningful.
>
> Children learn the world, the way they experience it
>
> ABSTRACT
> What the child learns, left to itself is the way the world is. The
> world awakens the child to the workings of the world in the child.
> Each species does this by engaging with the world autonomously.
>
> The process of being in the world is already in the new born in
> general terms and the particular space awakens the particular
> qualities, quite like the way child learns particular language. We are
> born with knowledge of life as well as knowledge of the species. The
> context awakens the particular qualities to root ourselves in that space.
>
> So children are learning the way the world looks, the quality or the
> property of its materiality and the functions, processes and the
> various phenomenon that happens around them. This is the most
> scientific way of understanding the world around as well as sharpening
> the tools to understand the world and developing the qualities to be
> in the world. The integrity of the world is retained by this integral
> way of relating to the world. The wholistic nature of the world
> awakens the wholistic nature in the child.
>
> 'Knowing by being' is the process by which children imbibe and there
> is no compartmentalization of subjects- language, art, science etc.
> Child by nature is integrated and whole and so is the world and
> fragmentation of modern human beings is due the way they are made to
> see fragmented and compartmentalized world right from childhood.
>
> Cognitive conditions of modernity forces children out of this
> biologically rooted way of being and knowing and schooling totally
> reinforces rationality as their cognitive process.
>
> SEE THE full paper at the LINK https://www.academia.edu/s/4b82c2e3c7
>
>
> --
> Jinan,
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