This is Tara Mohanan and K P Mohanan’s personal website. It is a repository of their unpublished and published work.
This work spans across various domains such as theoretical linguistics, transdisciplinary academic epistemology and ontology, theory construction and theory evaluation, pedagogy, and more. It is compiled here in the form of books, articles, email discussions, art works etc.
This repository is created for anyone willing to learn, has basic English understanding, and driven by intellectual curiosity.
Best way to use and learn from this website is by working through the written exposition, videos, and working through the tasks / exercises.
Glimpses into Inquiry
In this talk KP Mohanan shares journey that started from linguistics, that went on to expand into constructing knowledge, inquiry, transdisciplinary thinking etc. With the help of few examples, he provides some glimpses of key elements of the process of inquiry.
Their work focuses on helping students learn how to think – like a mathematician, scientist, philosopher, and how to think in transdisciplinary manner.
What Tara and KP Mohanan say:
This website carries the outcome of our joint efforts over decades (K P Mohanan and Tara Mohanan) in the broad domain of education that aims at the capacities for critical thinking, inquiry, and research across disciplinary boundaries.
Our work is predicated on the premise that the primary purpose of institutionalised education is to help learners develop the capacities associated with educatedness.
For us, educatedness is:
the capacity to strive for well-being — one’s own, as well as that of all life forms including all humans — along the biological, emotional, intellectual, ethical, societal, economic, aesthetic, and spiritual dimensions.
Our own focus in this vision is on rational inquiry into questions of truth, ethical judgment and action, and pragmatic action, locating the focus in intellectual well-being. This strand of education — called academic intelligence or Higher Order Cognition — is underrepresented in the curricula of both school education and higher education.
[See the sections on “Educatedness and Well-being,” (2.3), and on “Higher Order Cognition and Academic Intelligence,” ( 2.4), of the NAAC White Paper, (2022), at: Re-imagining Assessment and Accreditation in Higher Education in India, at: https://xavierscollegegoa.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/DOC-20230127-WA0035_pdf.pdf ]
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Note: Many of the articles, videos, and books here can also be found at ThinQ website. Some of the newer pieces, and those that come under specialised research (e.g., theoretical linguistics) are not featured at the ThinQ website.
Recent Posts
- Conceptual Inquiry: Democracy
- How to Think Like a Mathemtician
- Constructing, Measuring, and Calculating
- Constructing Theories of Geometry with Excursions into Biology
- Introduction to Scientific Inquiry
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