Literates learn the WORD; 'illiterates' learn the WORLD
Exploring how literacy and schooling damages the natural cognitive system meant for learning the world.
The 3 day workshop on how and what children learn naturally, how we make them into processors of secondhand information and how to reorganize the physical and psychological ambiance so that children retain their inherent wonder and creativity.
What is really learning and how what we learn forms our 'beingness'. Why do we need knowledge at all? Is it just for employment or are there any existential reasons? Why is that we are not aware of our own damage. The cognitive damages of the modern schooling process.
Why we have become blind to the inherent propensity and natural process of learning in children.
How children learn the real world and how children are misled from this natural process- the context and conditions and activities that are responsible for the formation of children.
Is there a natural process of learning the world with the help of the word? Or what is the role of language in the creation of knowledge?
Why learn about children
Children learn the world naturally till we interfere with this natural and inborn process by teaching/ training them. So if we want to know what is really learning as equipped by life/nature we have to study children before we 'train' them.
What blocks us from seeing children
The gap between how we see and what really is the child.
How children learn the world?
Exploring the logic or structure of learning? Learning to de-code their spontaneous as well as autonomously driven activities.
Is there a natural process of learning the world with the help of the word?
Children learn what they experience. So the teaching teacher teaches the children to teach, where as the learning Teacher 'teaches' children to learn.
Readymade knowledge develops in children ability to reason, analyze and store information and where as the process of creating knowledge develops in children observation, sensitivity, intuition and self organizing ability.
The pliable and flexible brain hardens as it engages with readymade, textualized knowledge where as the natural tendency on children to be in process of knowing retains the pliability.
Learning the world, which is what children are biologically equipped to 'learn' necessitates creativity as the first step where as in learning the word creativity is an afterthought.
All mental activity without experience is imagination. All education is that away imagination.
Exploring how literacy and schooling damages the natural cognitive system meant for learning the world.
The 3 day workshop on how and what children learn naturally, how we make them into processors of secondhand information and how to reorganize the physical and psychological ambiance so that children retain their inherent wonder and creativity.
What is really learning and how what we learn forms our 'beingness'. Why do we need knowledge at all? Is it just for employment or are there any existential reasons? Why is that we are not aware of our own damage. The cognitive damages of the modern schooling process.
Why we have become blind to the inherent propensity and natural process of learning in children.
How children learn the real world and how children are misled from this natural process- the context and conditions and activities that are responsible for the formation of children.
Is there a natural process of learning the world with the help of the word? Or what is the role of language in the creation of knowledge?
Why learn about children
Children learn the world naturally till we interfere with this natural and inborn process by teaching/ training them. So if we want to know what is really learning as equipped by life/nature we have to study children before we 'train' them.
What blocks us from seeing children
The gap between how we see and what really is the child.
How children learn the world?
Exploring the logic or structure of learning? Learning to de-code their spontaneous as well as autonomously driven activities.
Is there a natural process of learning the world with the help of the word?
Children learn what they experience. So the teaching teacher teaches the children to teach, where as the learning Teacher 'teaches' children to learn.
Readymade knowledge develops in children ability to reason, analyze and store information and where as the process of creating knowledge develops in children observation, sensitivity, intuition and self organizing ability.
The pliable and flexible brain hardens as it engages with readymade, textualized knowledge where as the natural tendency on children to be in process of knowing retains the pliability.
Learning the world, which is what children are biologically equipped to 'learn' necessitates creativity as the first step where as in learning the word creativity is an afterthought.
All mental activity without experience is imagination. All education is that away imagination.