Folklore, especially oral traditions, had been a significant part of learning and communication among the civilizations for ages. India is very rich in the same, and we know it has myths, cult centres, and folk culture as one of the major contributions to the learning systems here. Theyyam is a folk ritual from the northern part of Kerala, which dates back to beyond history, that transcends the rigidity of the class and caste demarcations and accommodates them all, a stage which is almost utopian in the Indian context till today. This post-human folk ritual and the perception of the same by the viewers have undergone profound changes over time, and this will continue with the evolution of human beings and the advancements in the cybernetic environment, nevertheless its resurgence with the mushrooming of recognition across the globe and active community participation. In this contemporary post-media experience age, technological capabilities have led to the dissemination of integral elements of information network, through multiple media, paving the way to a complex transmedia culture, and ‘Theyyam’, through an ontological and epistemological analysis, can be regarded as a ‘Knowledge-System’ of a kind, through which certain information can be derived, distinguished, and applied. Critical analysis of this ecological system as an accumulation of various elements from the cognitive cosmology helps the research to provoke and draw lines between the fundamental anthropological reasoning between the environment, humans, media, and technology. The study, thus, attempts to investigate how a folklore like Theyyam, being a psychological-immersive-narrative technique in an environmental theatre and as a reference to cultural genealogy, navigates anything more effectively in this society, a so-called cybernetic space. This gives us an opportunity to explore the ways to reimagine pedagogical practices and understand how this allows a persuasive and conclusive knowledge penetration.

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Folklore as Pedagogical Paradigms: Deriving Design Principles from an Indigenous Knowledge System

  • Ashish Mathai,
  • Jesna Jose

摘要

Folklore, especially oral traditions, had been a significant part of learning and communication among the civilizations for ages. India is very rich in the same, and we know it has myths, cult centres, and folk culture as one of the major contributions to the learning systems here. Theyyam is a folk ritual from the northern part of Kerala, which dates back to beyond history, that transcends the rigidity of the class and caste demarcations and accommodates them all, a stage which is almost utopian in the Indian context till today. This post-human folk ritual and the perception of the same by the viewers have undergone profound changes over time, and this will continue with the evolution of human beings and the advancements in the cybernetic environment, nevertheless its resurgence with the mushrooming of recognition across the globe and active community participation. In this contemporary post-media experience age, technological capabilities have led to the dissemination of integral elements of information network, through multiple media, paving the way to a complex transmedia culture, and ‘Theyyam’, through an ontological and epistemological analysis, can be regarded as a ‘Knowledge-System’ of a kind, through which certain information can be derived, distinguished, and applied. Critical analysis of this ecological system as an accumulation of various elements from the cognitive cosmology helps the research to provoke and draw lines between the fundamental anthropological reasoning between the environment, humans, media, and technology. The study, thus, attempts to investigate how a folklore like Theyyam, being a psychological-immersive-narrative technique in an environmental theatre and as a reference to cultural genealogy, navigates anything more effectively in this society, a so-called cybernetic space. This gives us an opportunity to explore the ways to reimagine pedagogical practices and understand how this allows a persuasive and conclusive knowledge penetration.