Stonehenge, an example of what we may consider an important cultural artifact. What about the context, the meaning, the purpose, the protocols, the processes? Image: Pixabay. Wisdom is not in cultural things, but in cultural processes and protocols. With this quote (Yunkaporta, T., 2023, Right Story, Wrong Story: Adventures in Indigenous Thinking , p. 201), I would like to invite us into a profound reorientation of how we think about interaction, relationality, and care, as well as their role in teaching. In a world often obsessed with finalised outputs (what we think we know, what we produce, what we create, what we consume, for example different forms of knowledge, art, music, stories, texts, and so on), Yunkaporta reminds us that true wisdom lies not in the artifacts of culture, but in the living systems of relationship and behaviour that sustain the situated co-creation of what could be called 'culture'. As a teacher, I find this insightful when thinking about pedagogies o...
On learning and education. Critically. Texts both in English and Finnish, side by side.// Oppimisesta ja koulutuksesta. Kriittisesti. Suomeksi ja englanniksi, vieri vieressä.