Friends, We are happy to invite you to the launch of our new book ‘SEEING WITH HANDS’ - Exploring the potential of drawing as a cognitive activity. Date: 6th July, Time: 4 30 to 5 30 PM IST. Zoom Link https://lnkd.in/ggc8wrU8 Amazon - https://lnkd.in/gZsFXAA9 This is a book on seeing- how children use drawing to observe the world. The book is to initiate seeing- an invitation to become an enquirer- to be like children, to observe, to touch, to feel, to sense… and more importantly, to let understanding take place. So, the invitation is to read the book without any forced agreement but to rediscover what children do when they have the freedom to draw and when they are not confused with our notions about art, self-expression, skill, etc. ‘Seeing with Hands’ explores the cognitive potential of drawing to understand the world. The book totally challenges our notion of drawing. It establishes drawing as means to observe and make sense of the real world. It also establishes the necessity of understanding drawing in continuation with children's actual experiences, the toys & play they create to revisit these experiences. The author says “It was by sheer accident that I stumbled upon the idea that children might be using drawing to understand the real world in terms of two-dimensional space.” This was evidenced by three years of children’s drawings done with absolutely no adult interference, whatsoever - neither to correct or praise. Naturally drawing became an activity that every child did to enhance their observation rather than to make artistic, skilled drawings. This book is bound to lead to a new way of being with children, respecting their autonomy and their innate ability to develop their cognitive systems. This has the potential to enable adults- parents, teachers, educationists, cognitive scientists, and psychologists - to reflect on their own schooling process and the way knowledge gets created naturally. [image: image.png] -- 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
