Is there a design to learning?
We at Ajahn, have been probing if there is a design to learning! For over a decade, we took an autobiographical approach to the research through action research paradigm and figured out that the design of a conditioned mind and emotions is in applied psychology. Our research in perception took us to many local communities, native populations who were relatively unconditioned to urban ideas and ways of life, ideology and fragmentation and they seemed to be in greater alignment to nature and the design of learning.
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We have outlined our observations from our autobiographical observations, and shared the nuggets on this platform. This autobiographical narrative will work as a contrast filter to the observations we make as we study design of learning in natural environments. We hope that some aspects of learning from local communities living in forests and native communities will enable us to live more harmoniously with nature.
Whorls
Paradigm
Stack of Circles
Pearls
Attributes
Design of Life
Beauty
Change
Growth
Joy
Pearls of life
Design of Life
Whorls of life
Design of Learning
Perception
Intuition
Pearls of learning
Observation
Interpretation
Design of Learning
Whorls of learning
Design of Learning
Epistemicide
Tradition
Aesthetics
Food Habits
Balance
Current times are characterized by epistemicide or destruction and loss of traditions of food, local knowledge, celebrations , way of life.
Natural materials are being replaced by plastic, use of real flowers is substituted by plastic flowers...celebrations that involved alignment with nature are getting discarded and local preparations of delicacies is getting eradicated from social memory. In some places of India like Uttarakhand, their traditional millet mandua which is also called Ragi is now substituted with wheat. It is both a tragedy and travesty to see temple architecture , rock cut temples painted with grotesque synthetic paints. It is a grave emergency of kinds when we look at our dissociation with nature.
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We have been trained to work from intellect or emotion or distilled wisdom from both, but our faculties of intuition that are aligned with nature have been disrupted, discarded and dissociated. We are attempting to understand how we can live in harmony with nature!!