this is a very plausible conception. you might look into the writing of piaget who conceptualized learning as a constructive process, which is close to a design processes indeed. i would love to participate and share my experiences, but your conversation is geographically too far from where i live and the timing would interfere with my teaching obligations. so i wish you good luck.
klaus krippendorff
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Subject: Dialouge on " WHAT CHILDREN (we) LEARN NATURALLY"
Friends
I hope you wont mind this post.
I am posting this only because I am finding how children make sense of the
world and DESIGN PROCESS is very similar.
I also know that most poeple may not be able to come for the event in such
short notice. The event was planed in a hurry and we hope to continue this
every 6 months on various aspects of 'learning'.
We are planning to have a samvaad on 'What Children (we) Learn Naturally'
in Pune on april 13, 14,15. This is part of a series of dialogues we are
planning around the questions related to learning, knowing, being etc.
The samvaad will be held in the spirit of questioning,
self-exploration, reflection, sharing of firsthand experience etc and may
not want to indulge in theoretical articulations of so called 'experts'.
We would like to think afresh on all these questions related to children,
schools, community space etc
As the event is self funded we have to keep registration fees ofRs 2000
which includes stay and food. Mean while do take a look at the background
paper and send us your thoughts on the samvaad.
As there is limitation of space we can only have around 30 people.
Hence do reply to this mail so that we can intimate you the
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For Sadhana school
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Samvaad on learning ecology
We are planning a series of samvaads on various aspects of learning
ecology- why learn? What is being learned? How learning takes place? And
where learning takes place?
And also a deeper enquiry to understand what exactly is 'learning',
'knowing' and 'being'?
It looks like that the more deeply one explores what is learning the more
intangible and subtle it seems like.
All the manmade crisis of modern times seems like a crisis at the level of
cognition which alienates and fragments the human being. The internal
destruction and the external destruction go hand in hand. Each becoming the
cause for further destruction.
Time and again many sensitive people have questioned the efficacy of the
'teaching' paradigm.
New insights in cognitive science, neuro biology and is challenging the old
paradigm based on 'Teaching', 'knowledge' and 'school' as the givens.
May be we need to revisit the whole questions based on 'how children learn'
rather than 'how to teach children'.
It seems that the most misunderstood aspect of modernity is learning,
knowledge and children. Having gone through the schooling process and also
having undergone the restructuring the cognitive apparatus/ tools we may
encounter several difficulties in addressing the issue. Starting with
disbelief to even having the ability to fully comprehend this. With our
linear, rational, fragmented beingness we may not be able to fully grasp
this as it would require wholistic beingness.
At Sadhana school, we are trying to reorient ourselves to respond to this
new insights so as to respect the natural, biological potential in children
to make sense of their surroundings and construct knowledge required for
their need. Check out our site www.reimaginingschools.wordpress.com
The first one in the series is on 'what children learn'
Samvaad on 'What Children (we) Learn'
Childhood is the most vulnerable and helpless period where things happen
and children have no control of both the outer environment and the inner
processes.
What children learn can be answered by only after understanding what
constitutes the process called learning. Modern notions about learning,
knowledge, schools etc has created so many misconceptions that it is going
to be very difficult to venture in to this question afresh.
Knowing happens in silence, with hardly any words used whereas teaching or
transmitting knowledge is a loud process where words are the primary
building blocks / means/ constituents.
Knowing happens in the real world where as teaching has been conducted in
the realm of words.
Originality, biology, autonomy, freedom constitutes conditions and
processes in the act of knowing where as teaching is about control,
conditioning, secondhand and psychology.
Knowing happens with the world as whole whereas teaching breaks the world
in to fragments and is compartmentalized as subjects.
May be we should revisit our own childhoods to re examine what happed in
our schooling.
What ever we have supposed to have learned either by the manner in which it
was taught to us or the very disjointed content has only resulted in us
loosing all passion for learning and the wonder of life.
The samvaads may not come up with any answers but would be helpful in
challenging our assumptions and mis conceptions. And may also help us in
recovering our child like qualities which might help us to connect with
children and understand what childrens world is all about.
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