EXISTENTIAL KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

Existential knowledge foundation has been set up to understand the connection between knowledge and existence, between living and knowing, and between experience and knowledge creation. This is a space for reconnecting with the existential aspects of knowing and being because modern knowledge seems to have forgotten the connection with life and knowledge. Children, knowledge, and the learning process seem to be the most misunderstood aspects of modernity. The foundation’s focus is to establish fresh research on this. Naturally the focus on the child..... understanding the child being the key to understanding humans... The most important and crucial period in human life is childhood and it here that utmost importance should be paid so that the total human potential is awakened. Modernity in general and education, in particular, takes children away from the real world and replaces with its simplified, codified, miniaturized, and distorted version (the way adults do baby talk, the silly songs, and stories adults tell children, toys, children's books/ digital tools, comics). Children are treated as idiots by modern people. Children need to be respected and treated with dignity. Only then they will grow up with respect and dignity. Even though they are fragile, vulnerable, and helpless they must never be given these feelings. Instead, they should be treated as if they are completely capable and children will respond accordingly. So, two key aspects that the foundation has been formed to explore are the very biological foundation of knowledge and its role in rooting the living beings to the flow of life and The second is the turn that humans have taken to go against this flow...... Naturally, this is not a mental exercise but is initiating a deep experiential exploration to understand life and knowledge.....

Website

http://www.existentialknowledgefoundation.org

External link for EXISTENTIAL KNOWLEDGE FOUNDATION

Industry

Primary and Secondary Education

Company size

2-10 employees

Headquarters

PUNE, Maharashtra

Type

Educational

Founded

2015

Specialties

Deschooling, Unlearning, Decolonizing, Cognitive freedom, Play, creativity, autonoumy, Respecting children, wholistic, and integral