Abstract

The sensory mind seeks understanding through interactions with others, reflexive sensing and deep respect for human flourishing within knowledge practices. A visual model depicts a developing sensory mind practice. This chapter explores the use of images, visual metaphors and models in the knowledge practices of sciences. It traces histories of teaching and learning of environmental education as well as education for sustainability or sustainable development. This chapter discusses how scientists understand reality and how they communicate amongst themselves and the public. It discusses the power of images, their potential for embracing diverse and conflicting meaning as well as the risks they pose for embracing these broad meanings. The chapter describes a visual model, its relationship with the social dance that inspired its creation, and how it may enable sensory understandings of the processes of knowledge co-creation. It draws from indigenous scholarship and worldviews that embrace knowledge as an enactment between people, all living things and existing within relationships, ecosystems and spiritual systems rather than as cognitive individuals. The chapter offers an evocation to reflect on our sense of knowledge and invites further engagement with this type of embodied visual modelling.

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