“The 3rd grade students from the Peyramale-Saint Joseph High School and the 5th grade students from the Immaculée de Soum school shared a unique moment of work.
The challenge, for the former, was to reflect, in a different way, the essentials of what they had appropriated during their PE lessons around the practice of judo. For the youngest, it was about using their curiosity to discover themselves differently in a new context, demanding and perhaps even perceived as destabilizing.
The explanation of the greeting then sets the tone of the session: According to Nomura (three-time Olympic champion), it means: “Thank you”; addressed, here, to the partner who authorizes and promotes learning, play, combat…
Therefore, by greeting the partner the judoka undertakes to do the best possible within the given framework; it cannot be a question, then, of playing with the other but rather of playing and learning “with”, of perceiving this other, even animated by an adverse intention, as indispensable and a resource for one’s learning and their common production.
The search for victory gives substance to this particular interpersonal link in which the action is coupled to the situation he experiences with this other who actively participates in his complexity and his interest. Multiple opportunities for combat will allow them to experience and enrich their relationship with others in order to be fully present and begin to acquire new skills.
It is therefore not necessary here to celebrate victory, or to feel the pangs of defeat since both are certain that by accepting the fight in a decided manner, they have taken “a step in before » personal and collective: the progress of one feeds that of the other and fuels their common production…on the condition that everyone takes their part, and gives themselves time: positioning sine not here of his contribution to the construction of a collective.
The CM2 then experienced their first adapted, controlled projections to contribute, among other things, to helping those who did not have the initiative move towards learning “ukemi”. The point here is not to learn to fall, or even to get up, but rather to find a resource to remain “in play” in the fight despite a fall: quite a symbol, tripping, falling and learning to manage to continue his way, otherwise, in a combative way…
Bringing this experience to the youngest accompanied by their elders, fuels the famous “mutual aid and prosperity” dear to Kano (the founder of judo) constitutive of the practice of judo and intended to continue “outside the closed doors of the dojo.”
Will the perception of the older ones by the younger ones be positively influenced? Will their interpersonal relationship and their curiosity about what (for the moment!) escapes be nourished by this learning interlude? Could this experience of supporting 3rd grade students fit into their orientation course?
“…and if it’s not sure, it’s still perhaps…” (J. Brel). A beautiful positioning to shed light on each of our teaching/learning challenges. »
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