5 Difficult Things About SENSES ARE THE AVENUES OF LEARNING.

 SENSES ARE THE AVENUES OF LEARNING.


It is very important that the instructor should make use of trainee’s senses. No senses no learning is possible. Some books on the psychology of learning called “METHODS” as ROADWAYS and” “SENSES as GATE WAYES to the mind.
The main question of learning just “how the student does learn”. The position of the instructor is just like a supplier of material like facts, ideas, skills, and principals, etc, which are new to the learners. Learner’s mind is surrounded by the wall of ignorance which has a few entrances. Those entrances are nothing but the senses, the avenue of learning, which help in communicating the knowledge, etc.
There are five senses i.e., sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste. Some of them are very important to be used for craftsmen Training.

5 Difficult Things About SENSES

There is one more sense known as “kinesthetic” sense, which means the sense of movement, making the judgment of weight, etc. This sense has not got any particular avenue out of exploited with the coordination of senses of sight, hearing and touch, etc. It helps in a great deal in the development of skills.
It is very important to see as many senses as possible exploit while teaching or learning because of the following reasons:
a) Less chance of being misunderstood.
b) Different trainees depend on each sensor to a different degree.
c) The more sense stimulated (used), the greater the impact (impression).
d) Increases the chance of remembering.
e) Utilizing those senses which are most important to the trainees in relation to the specific matter at hand.
f) Stimulating these senses as often as possible for retention in learning.

LEARNER LEARNS THROUGH SENSES:
It is now known in details how trainees learn through senses. Following are five senses which have their gateway or the avenue to communicate the information to the central nervous system (figure below ) as shown each. In order to show the relationship for use, we might allot percentage value to each. Psychologists differ as to precise proportions but generally agree to the order of individual understandings. It may differ according to the nature of trade, environment, and condition.

   SENSES

Sensory learning is concerned with perception and sense. Sense organs are generally called the “gates of knowledge”. A particular type of knowledge is acquired through particular sense organs. With the associations and reaction to the environment, sense organs grow conscious. The body consists of various sense organs and different types of sensation correspond to each sense organ. They are:
1) The sense of sight (Visual sensation) is through eyes. Colour, similarity, dissimilarity, reading and for all visual stimuli we use eyes.
2) The sense of hearing (Auditory sensation) is through ears. Sounds of different nature, teachers talk, discussions, sounds made by machines and materials or any other voice or sound reaches the ears as stimuli eliciting responses.
3) The sense of smell (Olfactory sensation) is through the nose. We can identify different oils, burning of rubber insulation or coils immediately through the smell, as and when the proper response occurs.
4) The sense of taste (Gustatory sensation) is through the tongue. We use the tongue to know the taste and through the taste, we find the difference between sweet, salt, tea, coffee, cheese, butter, etc. In the food processing or catering field, this sense is much in use.
5) The sense of touch (Tactile sensation) is through links or parts of the body. Touching enables one to find out smoothness, softness, hardness, and roughness of different degree. By proper utilization of this sensation, even blind men develop strong stimuli to other responses involving other organs.
6) Kinesthetic (Muscular sense). We perceive through muscular feel when pressing, pulling, pushing, holding, balancing, etc.
All the six senses play an important part in the acquisition of motor skills and knowledge and they are known as avenues of learning. A good instructor exploits as many senses as possible and each of the sense responds only to its own type of stimuli.