LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 13 : 1 January 2013
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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The Strange Accents of Knowing: A Challenge to Education

Dr. Sohaila Javed

Abstract

This paper engages our phenomenological gaze into the dark “whatness” of creation for knowing the reality of the world. This Orphic gaze takes us to wonder about the meaning of human existence, and the humanness of human beings. It also awakens us to look into our self in its “naked appearance” (van Manen, 2002) and “peer past the veneer of human constructs” at who we are; what is our place in all this; why are we here; and finally, what do we know? These are existential questionings that need reflective thought and immediate response for transformative change.

Introduction

Such serious searching at ground zero confronts us with our ‘unknowing’ and at such a base level, we can, with Lacan (1977b), feel “the pristine moment of pain and bliss when the gaze captures the object”, with nothingness staring back at us in the silence of wonder. Thus arriving at the heart of phenomenological reduction, an awesome original text may be a way toward a strong sense of human understanding that reminds always as to who and what are we. What is our place in all this? Why are we here? What do we know? And what do we do then?

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Dr. Sohaila Javed
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Quality Enhancement Cell
COMSATS Institute of Information and Technology
Islamabad
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