“Where were you then”? “What does your stomach tell you”? are common questions when journalists interview people involved in dramatic events. A search for embodied localized knowledge, it seems. The idea of common knowledge is under pressure, however, at the expense of the idea that experience is all we have. Locations do, however, not speak up themselves, neither do bodies. Humans make locations and bodies speak. Humans interpret experiences in language. Humans communicate. And as soon as we speak, we generate more speak. Language is the currency by which we exchange experience, and hermeneutics is the way we evaluate the exchange.
Phenomenology is a name for the acceptance of knowledge originating from experience, from being-in-the-world, but without language and without interpretation, sharing is impossible, and without evaluation through interpretation knowledge is impossible.
Hence, in case we want to evaluate a learning environment of some sort, let us begin by asking (1) Does this learning space allow participants’ experience to be spoken of? (2) Do participants share a language in which to exchange experiences? (3) Do participants share rules by which to commonly discuss and evaluate the exchange?
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