My brother and I are both trying to learn our grandmother's traditional recipes before we lose that knowledge, but we have completely different learning styles and we keep getting frustrated with each other during our cooking sessions. He wants to write everything down precisely and I learn by feel and intuition, and we end up arguing about the 'right' way to preserve and pass on what she's teaching us.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two family members are attempting to learn traditional knowledge together but their different learning styles are creating conflict over how cultural knowledge should be received, preserved, and potentially transmitted.
“Where Are You with Teaching as learning — the teacher's examined life?”
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