Secondary topics about the session of 2nd of December

Hello

If you want to read more about some of the topics we were discussing today I recommend the following links:



Here you can read about the Kegan's quote I mentioned (about the cake). I will look for the original quote. I had to translate it from his book "The evolving self" (1982).

And here I recommend you read this post written by John McWhirter as an example of intervening in order to promote the transition from a preoperational stage to a operational one. I addition to it I also wrote a post seven years ago reflecting on this same matter. I think it would be appropriate for you reading it too.

If you read all this you should have many new ideas about this transition on becoming a logical concrete thinker.

But if you want to reconnect again with what meant to be more preoperational then I suggest you review the following video.

Comments are welcome ;)

Inquiry Task

Hola a todos

Siempre que se acerca Diciembre y Navidad recuerdo un post que escribí sobre lo que hablamos en clase acerca de los Reyes Magos y la relación que tiene con el desarrollo descubrir que los padres son los reyes. Siempre me ha cautivado ese suceso vital, ese momento. Imagino que ha contribuido a ello vivirlo con mis cuatro sobrinos. A falta de hijos, de momento sólo he podido compartir esta experiencia de manera más cercana con mis sobrinos, los hijos de mis dos hermanos. Y la verdad es que disfruto mucho viendo cómo lo viven y sobre todo cómo han cambiado progresivamente en su manera de vivirlo.

Hace seis años, escribí este post. Os invito a leerlo y a ver qué os parece. Si queréis podéis compartir aquí vuestras experiencias al respecto. Lo que hago en él es analizar el descubrimiento de que los reyes magos son los padres en contraste con ese tipo de experiencia que también se vive en otras culturas, desde una perspectiva de análisis ritual, que es una de mis especialidades.

Aparte y como extensión complementaria os invito a leer el siguiente post, escrito por uno de los psicólogos actuales que más admiro, al menos uno de los que más he aprendido: John McWhirter. Plantea la siguiente situación:

"Six years ago, just before Christmas, a colleague told me that her 8 year old daughter was very upset because her teacher told the class of 8 year olds that there was no Father Christmas. The teacher said that of course there were three Kings as they were described in the bible but as there was no reference to Father Christmas he therefore did not exist. She said that now they were 8 years old they should know the truth.

While this was technically correct for a teacher in a catholic school with regard to the bible I disagreed with her “truth” and very much with her intervention and while I couldn’t help the whole class I was sure that I could help one individual! "

Si queréis leer qué tipo de intervención realiza, clicad el siguiente enlace y a ver igualmente qué os sugiere. 

Un saludo

Alejandro