ABSTRACT
One might say that children need to work through given cultural forms in order to express their relations with the world they inhabit, and to contemplate the world they inhabit in order to have anything to say at all by means of the forms they employ. A primary level of apprehension of the world, through the senses’ perceptions of it, seems to be more accessible for the teacher than experience in more complex forms. It might be said that it is adults not children who need the physical world to be renovated, and perhaps there is truth in this; and in school, it may be older children who benefit. Perhaps, but the experience of working with children in this way suggests in fact that it is susceptible of renewal or more intense apprehension, perhaps because after all there are different ways even for the child of 8 or 9 to encounter the world.
