One more question not included

Any connection or educated guess?

A question not included in the exam

I can share now this image that I almost included as another task in the exam. I knew about it thanks to an old student of mine, currently a colleague, David Herrero, who as Gloria, I have the pleasure to work with.

The task is quite simple: What do you see? How do you see it? Why do you see it?  And what can we infer from that?

"Eso es una guarrería"

(I again jajaja)

I did the exercise 7 a few days ago with my cousins; they have 3 and 6 years. It was the situation:

Me: Candela (3), look at this picture.
She: …
Me: What do you see?
She: Nothing.

And she left.
Now with Javier (6)

Me: Javier, look at this picture.
He: “Eso es una guarrería”
Me: Why?
He: Beacuse they are without clothes.
Me: Do you see something else?
He: M… no.
Me: Can you see the bottle?
He: Ah! Yes, of course.
Me:  I can see some dolphins.
He: …
Me: Can you see them?
He: … well… I think so…

In this moment Candela came.

She: Javier, what are you looking for? There is nothing.
He: “¡Sí, hay una guarrería!” 
She: It is a lie (looking at the picture)
He: Laura, why doesn´t Candela see nothing?

And their mum interrupted us.

My interpretation:

Candela wasn’t interested by the pictures, maybe due to external factors. Moreover, she didn’t find a meaning of it, she is not prepared yet.

The first Javier saw was the couple, and then the bottle. Sometimes we focus our attention on striking things or acts. And this keeps out to see the common or the basic structure. To see it, it is necessary to do a complex exercise. Javier did it with my help. And then, the common seems too evidence.

I think he didn´t see the dolphins but he tried to find them. It was funny because he was looking for them in the water. Meantime, I was surprised; I hadn’t thought this exercise would be so.

When Javier said to Candela there is a “guarrería”, she came attracted by this. But she didn’t accept we could see something. Javier, in return, accepted I could see dolphins or Candela couldn´t see nothing, but he didn´t know why. He still doesn´t know it.

In relation with Kegan´s theory:

Candela can´t consider points of view different to hers. She can´t differentiate the subjective perception of the object. And she can´t do cause-effect connections. She has a big attachment to momentary and immediate things, a self-centered sociality and her feelings are impulsive.

Javier accepts the object has properties independently his perceptions. He accepts other people have different points of view. But with the picture he can´t do generalisations, take out some topics and compare them.

I can “play” with the object, I am independent of it. I can take out topics and make connections between them. For example, I can reflect about the striking, the society and why this scene is considered a “guarrería” by kids.

I like these tree levels and their differences and similarities. 

Laura.

The Further Reaches of Adult Development

I can imagine most of you will be "enjoying" right now writing the the final version of your paper. Once you finished it or in the meantime maybe you would be curious about watching this brief presentation of Robert Kegan, this author you are already familiar with.

I hope you will enjoy it ;)

How are you?

I was reading some blogs and I found this post about the importance our time.

Are you doing the final psychology work? Will you do it the last day? Did you finish it?

How many times we have said “If I had started early…”? I don´t know if it is similar to you but I am used to do my works and study the last days and (sometimes) when I am doing them I think: I want to continue doing it, I am “enjoying” and I want to do it the best as possible but I haven´t got more time. I wasted it.

Why don´t I start before? Why do I need a lot of pressure to do it?

Whenever I finish my final exams I say: Ok, for the next time I will study early. But I never do it… How about the exam of today? Did you do it well? I should have started to study early… I would have done it better jajaja.

Sometimes we propose some things but we never carry out. For example, the last January, how many of us had some purposes? And how many of them were carried out? And this year?

I was thinking about this and I have got one solution. Like George, we can do the opposite. Until now we were proposing improbable things and we know it, so, shall we propose probable intentions? For example, not to get the objectives we have this January.

I am going to do my psychology work because I have not started yet. I think I will need more time… ^.^ Do you think so?


Laura Sanz.