Sunday Night's Discussion continued
So, let's try and see if we can eloquently convey the outcome of the discussion.
Information, Learning and Knowledge.
What's the difference? When do they happen?
Well after listening to everyone and inputting my own thoughts on the matter, I've come up with this.....for the moment.
I believe that we receive information as the learner, we digest that information through the "filter of our own experience" (as quoted by Christopher Moore in the discussion) and the knowledge is then the "factual information" (as quoted by Leroy in the discussion) and the way in which we transfer this to the next learner and the different vocabulary that we use to communicate this. I feel the learning never stops as we discover new ways of sharing this information and adapting it to the next learner's own individual filter of experience.
The internal cognitive process is the internal "filter of our own experience".
For example, if I was to ask a student to create a motif based on their knowledge of the concept of 'home'; one student may create a motif based through happiness, safety and love. Yet another student may bring in fear, instability and loneliness.
The vocabulary I've used to give them the information of the concept is the same, but the internal experience with the concept is different therefore their knowledge of the subject is different. After watching each other's pieces and discussing the process behind it, both students will have been shown a different perspective to the meaning behind the information word and therefore learnt something new and expanded their knowledge past what they knew to be their truth of the subject.
From this lens, can we ever really say that learning has been completed, or is it just that the alternative perspective on the information vocabulary has not yet been explored from everyone's own personal filter and will we ever all truly understand each concept with the same lens.
Ultimately isn't that what art is about? We all see something different because of our internal experience. Do we even see the same colour red as someone else's red? We know that being colour blind exists, but how do we know that what I have learnt to mean red, is the same as someone else's red? We only have a limited vocabulary to discuss this and we only have our own personal experience to draw the knowledge from.
Ok mind blown again.....good night all!
Hi! Personal experience is our frame of reference as Moon states in her Handbook of reflective and experiential learning. Thinking of art and the concept of knowledge, the artists makes his/her internal experience visible, until when he/she shares it with the public, it keeps being an internal process of feelings, emotions, etc. The question I ask myself is 'how to make two people with two different life experience, or frames of reference, be able to represent the same art piece e.g a dance performance'? how can they become better at representing the same final product? is it about refining their dance skills, becoming better at expressing their internal world, ...or other? Do dance techniques aim at imparting specific code of movements? if so, how can the personal world come to play?
ReplyDeleteDear Paola, thank you for your reply. I would suggest the dance technique isn't where the representation of the expression of the internal world is held. This is the part that gives the piece it's structure and uniform and the look of feeling 'cleaner' but the expression of where each artist is coming from in terms of their own internal world and the sharing between each artist to see if they can find a place of coming from that fits them both is what brings the performance quality and the closer their ideas and understanding of the frame of reference and internal world, the greater the outcome will be at representing the same piece of art.
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