We are inviting you to participate in the samvaad on the COGNITIVE IMPORTANCE
OF DRAWING to be held on October 27, 28, 29th at Pune. Hope the attached
poster can be displayed.
Please see the program details at
http://cognitiveimportanceofdrawing.weebly.com/
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We will have presentations, videos, discussions, exhibition as well as
'Learning
to draw sessions' to take fear out of drawing.
We want to explore the cognitive potential of drawing- as tool for observation,
description, analysis, communication, abstraction and
more importantly as a step to learn to write. Due to various misconceptions
drawing is not being given the importance it deserves.
The fear of drawing prevents most adults from even attempting this. The
way we accept writing as a functional tool and put up with bad
hand writing drawing also needs to be seen as purely a functional tool and
accept 'bad drawing'. For this one may need to disassociate
drawing from art because art seems like something one can't understand or
it is not all that important. Also one needs to put aside ideas
like drawing as an inborn skill etc.
May be we should give equal weightage to drawing as much we give to literacy.
One thing to note is that writing is not a cognitive tool
nor does it help in cognition where as drawing does help in observation
which is the first step in cognition.
Sadhana school experience
Based on our three years observation on drawings by children we see a strong
connect between what children experience, what children play, the toys they
make and the drawings they do. (We have a total non coercive, no
instruction, no help environment for children and we do not provide toys
etc hence children get to function autonomously and naturally)
What we are seeing from children's drawing is that how much their observation
ability is getting fine tuned. It is also showing the process of
abstraction and comprehension of the world they are engaging with. How
three dimensional objects like house, bus, car etc gets represented
initially as one plane and how these complex figure gets represented
gradually showing its three dimensionality. Children
also use drawing to explain their experience. So it is important to treat
drawing as a simple and natural activity that children do, especially in
the context of literate communities where pencil, paper etc are part of the
context.
In the context of the historical development of writing drawing has played
a major role. Many alphabets still retain its traces and it seems that
people using this alphabets do use both sides of the brain. Drawing is like
a vaccination to rrot oneself in the real world before entering the world
of literacy which often takes people away from the real world!
If this is true then we must see to it that the educational boards and other
government bodies that engage with children in the early years
be sensitized to this aspect.
Hope you will find time to come for the samvaad. (See the work- on-
progress site http://cognitiveimportanceofdrawing.weebly.com/
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and
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online discussions.
If you are interested in registering for the event do email us at
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Sadhana school team
Amol, Chitra, Reva, Naren, Ranjana, Saurabh, zoe, Jinan
Jinan,
'DIGITAL MEDIUM IS A TOOL.DIGITALLY MEDIATED KNOWLEDGE DESTROYS THE BEING'
http://sadhanavillageschool.org/
https://www.youtube.com/user/sadhanavillagepune
https://www.youtube.com/user/jinansvideos
www.re-cognition.org
www.kumbham.org
reimaginingschools.wordpress.com
http://designeducationasia.blogspot.com/
http://awakeningaestheticawareness.wordpress.com/
http://awakeningaestheticawareness.blogspot.in/
09447121544
0487 2386723
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