I take time to sit in with my colleagues who introduce children to a methodology of learning, which they can use for their advanced learning. This is s simple pedagogical principle: learning by association.
As this child is shown a picture, he picks up its name from among several pieces of name labels. He then would read the word by spelling it aloud. Then he would associate the picture to an actual object and its function whenever possible. This is learning by knowing, different from the rote learning.
Every step of learning is thus made in to a hierarchy of steps of understanding, with sequences made easy.
The steps of understanding are difficult to define for all children alike as each child has a thought or perceptual block at different levels of the hierarchy of learning steps. We refer to this as challenges in learning, for which we need to find by-pass strategies.
I have been using an apple computer for three years now. I am still most elementary in my knowledge of its versatility and find my mind struggling to sequence the steps of technical learning. I have got used to essential details related to posting what I write at the blog site. Does that mean that I know all about blogging. Not at all!
Most of us live with fragmented knowledge. Most of our arguments or disagreements are created by our strong adherence to the step of learning that we have arrived at and not seeing well enough the other steps others have climbed!
Knowing is a process which begins by freeing ourselves from our current position because knowing itself is a movement from the known to the unknown! We would know more if what others think and tell us inspire us to find the next step in our learning process!
M.C.Mathew(text and photograph)
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