DRAW THE WORLD TO KNOW THE WORLD - An online course to Learn to see how children see the world and reclaim our ability to OBSERVE our context

DRAW THE WORLD TO KNOW THE WORLD

An online course to Learn to see how children see the world and reclaim our ability to OBSERVE our context

Orientation August 20 7 30pm to 8 30 IST

Drawing as a tool for observation, abstraction, articulation, description, reflection, imagination, and as a means to root oneself in the real world as well as to make the connection between the real world and the two-dimensional space of books and screens. Drawing is playing in 2 D

DRAWING AS A COGNITIVE ACTIVITY

Learn to see the world through the eyes of children.

Children are equipped by life to see the world in a manner that allows them to understand the holistic nature of the world, the components, the details, and its relationship. Inviting you to relive this process in order to reclaim our ability to SEE the real world.

WHAT PREVENTS THIS UNDERSTANDING

We normally see drawing as art and not as a cognitive activity. Naturally, this also kills the drawing activity for most children as they fail to be ‘artists’. There is a need to re-understand the role of drawing in enabling children to cognize the world around and this can only happen provided the adults understand the cognitive importance of drawing.

FOR WHOM

? For parents of young children, to enable them to help how to create an environment for spontaneous drawing

? Teachers, who want to enable children to restart the process of drawing

? For those, especially, who are afraid of art; because drawing is not an art but the activity that children do to understand the world, provided there is no teaching.

? Especially for artists because they will understand the real role of drawing and might stop teaching how or what to draw.

? Anyone who wants to enhance their observation ability

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS: 

v Opportunity for deep enquiry into life, learning, children, and ourselves.

v Non-expert dependent, non-teaching, learner centered approach

v Flexible and relaxed pace

v Close interaction and smaller group (maximum 25) for rich learning exchange

v Participative and interactive in nature.

v Potential to transform your entire understanding of life and children. 

v Open to all - teachers, parents, education activists, psychologists, design and architecture students, youth

COURSE CONTENT: 

v The cognitive importance of drawing

v Understanding what children draw.

v Understanding various stages of drawing

v How to enable situation for drawing.

v Why it is important not to judge

v Why it is important not to teach

v Why drawing books for children are detrimental to their cognitive development

v Why drawing should not be understood as art

v How drawing is more important than learning to write.

v Why drawing should precede writing

v Why children should not be restricted to draw anywhere

COURSE STRUCTURE: 

v One Orientation session (20th AUGUST), 3 Course Sessions (28th,30th, 1st September),

     6 interactive sessions - spread over 3 months (2nd and 4th Saturday of Sept, Oct, Nov). 

v After introductory sessions, participants need to immerse themselves in direct observation, documentation and engagement with children. These diverse experiences will become the foundation of further learning for the group in  6 interactive sessions.

v WhatsApp/ Email group for continuous learning and interaction within the group in presence of course facilitators for 3 months. 

v Recordings to be shared with registered participants if they miss any session. 

Course Fee:

Only Orientation Session (August 20th, 7: 30 to 8:30 PM IST) - Rs. 300 (100 seats) 

Entire course fee including orientation - Rs. 4000 (25 seats)

(Need-based scholarship available)

To register: 

please visit www.ekfoundation.in or email us at [email protected]

BACKGROUND

From 2011 June to 2014 July Sadhana school in Pune provided us an opportunity to work with children.

We established an initiative IMAGINING SCHOOLS’ with the intention of deeply exploring how and what children learn naturally under conditions of freedom, respect, trust, care, and love. One of our focuses was to study drawing.

We documented not only what they were drawing but also, how, where, and with what they drew. Drawings that were done by children clearly showed their own cognitive development and also what the intention of life itself is. All living beings learn and human being is not different; And what and how of learning is dictated by life itself.

A close study of the drawings gives a glimpse of this process. Modern schooling has totally discarded this possibility.

Explore with us COGNITIVE IMPORTANCE OF DRAWING.

https://ekfoundation.in/courses/reimagining-drawing/