
In Indigenous Australia, traditional pedagogies emphasise the tacit (as distinct from explicit) transfer of knowledge. This plays out naturally in contemporary notions of the value of mentors. If you want to learn to hunt, don’t worry about the the How to Hunt books on the Hunting and Personal Development shelves. Find somebody who knows, attach yourself, serve, model, reflect, actualize. Action learning and action research resonate in this domain, the commitment to experience things first hand and learn, in stages, from this experience. Including experiences of failure.
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