Seeing with Hands
Exploring the potential of drawing to understand the real world in terms of two-dimensional surface
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Contents
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Acknowledgement
Preface
Forward
Forward
Part 1
Stumbling into drawing
Stumbling into drawing
Reimagining schools
Creating conditions for learning to happen
What children saw
Children draw what they see
Reorganizing conditions/spaces
Children's drawings – a study.
Part
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Accidental discovery that drawing is an activity which children do to understand the real world.
About the reimagining school experiment for children to have the freedom to respond to the world around and awaken their inherent system.
Part 2
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The journey
Developmental stages in drawing
Drawing as an adaptive activity
Scribbling
Beginning of observation
Drawing what they see
Abstraction
Recognizing form
Reiteration- Continuous practice
Achieving three dimension
Events in daily life - From words to story
Exploring details
Imagination
Drawing what is not there
Exploring function/process
Time and motion
Scenery- Composition- organization of space
Dynamic Drawing- Story making
Unusual drawings
Lord Ganesha in various forms
Freedom from rules
Bad examples
Drawing as a cognitive process
Further explorations
Bringing back observation
Working with older children
Observation drawing
Breaking habits of perception
Mapping the travel
Panoramic view
Learning to recollect
School as a place for reclaiming senses.
Part 3
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Reflections, questions, doubts, conclusions, possibilities
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Drawing & the role of senses
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How drawing helps children to be attentive, intelligent and creative
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What prevents us from understanding the real nature of learning and children?
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Rooting and locating- how children be in the world
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Impact of the written word on the being
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Misleading children from the world to the word
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The beginning of teaching and instructing
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A glimpse into the children’s world
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What prevents us from understanding drawing?
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Is drawing a natural act?
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Drawing is not art!
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Drawing and writing- a re-assessment
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What is a cognitive act?
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Re- definitions of drawing
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What children taught us
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Further research
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To parents and teachers....
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The path we took
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Another path?
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Our reflections about the experience of being with children.
Re-imagining and creating situations, ensuring children’s autonomy.
Raising further questions and doubts.
Some conclusions discovered.
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What children draw during various stages of their childhood.
How children constantly discovers new ways of responding?
Children’s autonomy and some of our explorations in various schools.