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https://www.academia.edu/s/aa8da75e9e or check out this article at
Medium
(
https://jinankb.medium.com/awakening-aesthetic-awareness-93a77201027f)
The article is about an experiment I have been exploring to enable
students to create knowledge and awaken their authentic aesthetic
sense.
I am trying to initiate discussions on three aspects. One is
knowledge
creation, the second is the role of the sense of beauty in
cognition,
and the third challenging the very notion of teaching. That is one
who
has actually created knowledge only would know the fallacy that
teaching would result in learning. The fragmented approach to art
is
another myth of modernity.
What is taught as fragments do not get synthesized automatically
as
our cognitive system is equipped to learn holistically. The way we
learned our mother tongue - without neither knowing grammar nor
knowing the meaning of each word we are able to speak fluently.
Even though I did not do any teaching, the way I approached
elements
of design was to start with various elements one by one and then
go
into the principles also one after the other. By this approach, a
proper synthesis doesn’t happen. This is the way we were taught
the
second language where we learned first the meaning of many words
and
the grammar but we did not know how to speak. Putting together
these
elements and rules later does not work.
So, like in the way how we learn our mother tongue, we started
with
experiencing beauty, and then as we began to reflect on why
something
is beautiful we were able to see what are the constituents of
beauty
and how it all came together to constitute beauty.
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Jinan,
TEXT DISTORTS, DIGITAL DESTROYS, WORLD AWAKENS
http://kbjinan.in/ <http://jinankb.in/>
http://ekfoundation.in/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC80rT8Zj1EE8TrzD3UreYfQ
www.re-cognition.org
https://independent.academia.edu/JinanKodapully
09447121544
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