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Thursday, May 12, 2005 |
Anticipating Autopoiesis: Personal
Construct Psychology and Self-Organizing Systems. Seb
Fiedler hits on a nice article that draws out
some implications of the psychological theory of
constructivism, a theory which holds, essentially, that our
understanding of the world is a creative act. "There
is no event which could be called 'stark reality' because
there is no event which we cannot reconstrue
alternately." What's important is
how we undertake this process (c.f. my
remarks on similarity, below). We are self-organizing
systems "a closed network of productions of components
that through their interactions constitute the network of
productions that produce them." Why is this important?
Well, as Fiedler remarks, it has direct implications on the
practice of teaching: "There is no linear causality
that can dictate changes in another's system. Mistakenly
believing that there is such causality often leads to
teacher/instructor/facilitator hostility toward the
student/learner/participant". Moreover, it is worth
noting that the Praxis listed at the bottom of the example
mirrors almost exactly the principles
of educational gaming described by people like
James Paul Gee. Of course - it doesn't have to be a
game - that's just one way to do it. My
own view is that these principles should be instantiated in
real world applications - which leads us
to an underlying theory of workflow learning. By Vincent
Kenny, Self-Organisation in Psychotherapy, in 1989
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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An experimental test of flashbulb memory.
The Stroop effect is a well-documented phenomenon that shows how easily
we can be distracted from a simple task. In the classic Stroop
experiment, we are shown a word, such as GREEN, and asked to indicate
the color it is printed in. When the meaning of the word itself
conflicts with the word's color, the [...] [Cognitive Daily]
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