Aikid? pedagogy between theoretic knowledge and practical knowledge

Abstract

This article tries to identify the paradigmatic lines for a possible integration between the cultural mindset of a pedagogical vision that is typically western and the philosophy that is at the base of the aikidoistic discipline, of Japanese origin, and because of this focused on an approach to the construction of knowledge that is at the same time theoretical and practical, which can therefore combine formal knowledge with practical knowledge. In Japanese culture, like generally in the far-eastern ones, there has never been a real detachment between the arm and the mind, between theoretical and practical, as instead occurred in our history, and this detachment continues to mark our educational systems, in which theoretical and practical by now for centuries struggle to integrate.