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An aporia is a crisis of choice, of action and identity, and not

only of belief. When I have too many choices, or no

choices, I don't have a choice; I'm stuck.

MATRIXALLEGORY OF THE CAVE

The man sees the shadows

Then the reflections of the men and other objects

The objects themselves

True knowledge

Plato´s transitional stage of aporia

Different kinds of aporia

There is no path in sight ( The Meno)

There are too many paths to choose

One cannot recognize a path that isalready there.

The path is apparent, but one cannot orwill not follow it.

Implications in Teaching

Pass toward insight and understanding

Re-cognize

Think againThink in a

diferent way

How do we recognize thatsomething is true?

What does it requiere?

Bridges, links which help thelearner to assimilate a different

vocabulary and set of assumptions

What does it mean tothink in a diferent way?Think about a

problem in thewrong way

Not knowinghow to go on

Implications in Teaching

To help the learners who are lost to find their

way

To make a passage

between what is foreign or

puzzling and what is familiar

Implications in Teaching

What is the role of the teacher?

What is the goal?

Not to eliminate aporia but to see within doubt the questions that make a new understanding possible.

Implications in Teaching

APORIA

(a shared state)

The teacherThe learner

Implications in Teaching

Teaching that begins withquestions

Are a moral and

pedagogicalchoice.

Questions are the mediators

betweenwhat we

know and what we do not know.

The questionsmust be real ( they should

puzzle, confuse and

interest)

The questionsmust induce

the learner toabandon a

corrupt set of beliefs,

experiencethe crisis of

aporia and bemoved intothe light of

truth.

ALLOWS LEARNERS TO

FEEL THE FULL JOY OF RECOGNITION

RESPECTS THE EDUCATIONAL IMPORTANCE OF BOTH:

• Doubt and confidence

• Strangeness and familiarity

• Being lost and findinga way.

Teaching that begins withquestions