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ERIC Number: EJ597662
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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Reference Count: 0
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ISSN: ISSN-0020-8566
Other Ways to Wisdom: Learning through the Senses across Cultures.
Classen, Constance
International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de l'Education, v45 n3-4 p269-280 1999
Contends that Westerners are accustomed to learning about the world through our senses of sight and hearing, and that "lower" senses--smell, taste, and touch--tend to be associated with "savagery" or sensualism. Provides a cross-cultural look at the Colombian Desana people who acquire knowledge through full-bodied experience and interpretation of the environment. Contains 24 references. (VWC)
Descriptors: Anthropology, Cognitive Processes, Comparative Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Environmental Influences, Foreign Countries, Indigenous Populations, Latin American Culture, Latin Americans, Learning Processes, Sensory Experience
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Colombia