The Japanese and Western View of Nature - Beyond Cultural Incommensurability

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• Dr Manuba Sumida, Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Education, Associate Professor, Science Education Department, Faculty of Education, Ehime University, Japan
• Monday 19 November 2012, 16:30-18:00
• GS5, Donald McIntyre Building, Faculty of Education, 184 Hills Road, Cambridge.

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Tea and coffee and biscuits available from 16.15

Sumida and Kawasaki (2008) established the distinction between the Japanese and Western worldviews of nature. The first emphasizes the appearance of the natural phenomenal world; the latter makes a distinction between, on the one hand, nature and human and, on the other hand, ‘appearance’ and ‘what is transcendental’ with each component appreciated and studied differently. This presentation focuses on differences in cognition as influenced by different language-culture (L-C) communities and worldviews and on the notion of the ‘mode of science education.’ It recognizes that a Japanese ‘linguistic mode of science education’ requires early science education to offer activities that are based on the Japanese L-C tradition and worldview. The presenter will discuss on how Japanese L-C activities on nature could be incorporated into science and multiple learning in enriched ways.

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