A day doing gardening. A mind wandering. A question.
Knowing stuff is important, but is it enough to think about what kids need to know without going further and asking how knowing happens?
Lengthy mulling, thought trails running long and dead-end(ish).
I’m not sure where the question came from. Perhaps the fact of it being exam time here in New Zealand. Maybe a surfacing of something I’d read about how kids don’t know enough these days. What I did end up thinking that asking how knowing happens matters, perhaps even more than knowing.
The day before, my son had been asking me about one of the last cricket games I’d played in college. He was after facts, figures. I had nothing - they’d all gone. What I did have was the emotion. I remember the frustration of bowling well but not dismissing a good friend, despite him toying with the slips off what were clearly a number of beautifully bowled outswingers. I remember thinking ‘You’ve got to be kidding’ each time. He ended up scoring a few that day, and we lost. I know I didn’t get him out. Anything else, pretty much lost in the mist of time.
When considering how knowing happens are we dealing with emotion? Is that what makes knowing stick?