Years ago, a theory of human development evolved along side Piaget’s famous work, but without the fanfare so often afforded to Piaget. The work of Lawrence Kohlberg and his relationship to Piaget’s is a broader than I want to examine here, but his Six Stages of Moral Development is worth looking at, even at a cursory [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Kohlberg’s stages of Moral Development
Posted in education, personal interactions, spirituality, teaching, tagged aspirations, education, expectation, positive thinking, spirituality, teaching on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Feeding the Elephant
Posted in education, personal interactions, spirituality, teaching, tagged education, expectation, feeling good, spirituality, success, teaching on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My Principal once told a story of a speaker at an educational conference who was from India. This Indian presenter summed up the major difference between education in America and the rest of the world when he said “In America you spend all of your time measuring the elephant. In India we spend our time feeding the [...]
Transformative Learning
Posted in education, teaching, tagged aspirations, education, expectation, learning on October 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning (TL) (1991) is based on the idea that real learning results in a change of perspective which then becomes transformative learning. It is not an exaggeration to call TL life changing learning. This learning changes the way the learner thinks, which changes the way the learner feels, and ultimately how the [...]
