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RHEA KUTHOORE

Sept 05, 2023 · 6 min read

Goal

An exploration of what we ‘just know!’and when we should be open to challenging it.
1. What do we ‘just know’ and how?
2. How do we trust what other people tell us and why?

Pre-stimulus

1. Have there been instances when you knew something, certainly, but someone said to you that they knew the opposite of what you knew, most certainly?
2. Have there been times when people have told you something as a fact but you did not know whether to believe them? How did you verify?

Stimulus

The ‘why-why’ game. The purpose of this game is to encounter the piece of knowledge we take for granted when we probe into why we know something. For instance,

Me: tell me something you know.
You: I know that the Earth is round.
Me: why is the Earth round?
You: Because God made it so.
Me: why did god make it so?

(no response)…Hence, ‘god made things a certain way’ is that piece of knowledge that you do not have further knowledge about and hence, have taken for granted.

Resource

‘The extraordinary egg’ is a story of three frogs who discover an unknown egg. Despite evidence to the contrary (i.e the being that comes out of the egg can swim), the three frogs believe that the egg is a chicken egg and not the egg of an alligator. This book is great for it allows us to explore when and why we are open to different knowledges.

During Reading

Pg 1: where do you think the other frog was?
Pg 2: Jessica was full of wonder. What are some things you wonder about? Pg 4: what do you think she has picked up? why?
Pg 5: “There are some things that you just know” — what does this mean? What do we just know and how?
Pg 7: They were surprised the chicken was a good swimmer. Do you think they should have stopped and questioned — how come the “chicken” is swimming?
Pg 10: They became inseparable friends because the chicken saved the frog. When and how do you make friends?
Big croc: how did the little chicken ‘just know’ that the big croc was her mother? Could she be wrong
Last page: why did the three frogs still not believe that the little chicken was an alligator? What is essential to learning new things?

In-class Learnings

In class, together, we try to come up with criteria for what we can ‘just know’ and for when we can trust what others say.

RHEA KUTHOORE is an educator who is passionate about facilitating philosophical and feminist thinking amongst young people.

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