Haiku Poems Education
I happen to believe that Haiku Poems, or something like a primordial
sensibility for haiku poems, is actually in every one of us, regardless of
race, culture, language or religion. Put another way, if we compare
haiku poems to cooking, its ingredients are to be found in every one of us.
We only have to cook it. And like food, every haiku poems tastes different,
unless, that is, one gets it from McDonald's. You, as haiku poets from
various countries, are living testimonies to this. The question, then,
is how to extract haiku poems from within ourselves, and this question
relates to the second aspect of education as applied to haiku poems has played a useful role in education in various ways.
The evidence is abundant. It ranges from school curricula that make the
teaching of haiku poems to children compulsory to cases where haiku is used
for an educational programme in prisons. Haiku in education has been
one of the most important policy areas of the World Haiku Club since
the club's inception in 1998. In the first World Haiku Festival back
in 2000 in London and Oxford, a special seminar was organised that was
exclusively devoted to this theme.
The members are disseminating haiku
among children across the world through school systems or by holding
workshops, ginko or kukai all the time. Children are natural haiku
poets even before they know anything about it.
Haiku poems and education part 2
Haiku poems and education part 3
