'Yohsin' Embodied Ecological Knowledge?
Yohsin Lecture Series by Dr Munir Fasheh Habib University Karachi 2011
Dr Fasheh shares his insights about his illiterate mother's embodied knowledge of math which she used to make dresses compared to his own knowledge of math he had learnt through study and then taught to students. In Arabic Yohsin means 'what you do'. But it has other meanings through connections to its linguistic roots. It includes the following meanings: What you do:
There is something profound in these insights about the knowledge we learn from doing useful things in everyday life compared to the knowledge we gain through formal study much of which is abstracted from everyday life. These insights seem relevant to our understandings of learning ecologies derived though our interactions with our everyday world as we try to accomplish the things that are meaningful and useful to us.
Yohsin Lecture Series by Dr Munir Fasheh Habib University Karachi 2011
Dr Fasheh shares his insights about his illiterate mother's embodied knowledge of math which she used to make dresses compared to his own knowledge of math he had learnt through study and then taught to students. In Arabic Yohsin means 'what you do'. But it has other meanings through connections to its linguistic roots. It includes the following meanings: What you do:
- you do it well
- you do it beautifully
- what you do is useful
- you give something of yourself
- what you do is done with respect
There is something profound in these insights about the knowledge we learn from doing useful things in everyday life compared to the knowledge we gain through formal study much of which is abstracted from everyday life. These insights seem relevant to our understandings of learning ecologies derived though our interactions with our everyday world as we try to accomplish the things that are meaningful and useful to us.
