“American Beauty” plastic bag theme, Thomas Newman

MendrisioMarch 20, 2014

Designing Education for Development

and Meaning:

Designing Education for Development

and Meaning:Teaching with

Analytic Psychology

Paul Shaker, PhDprofessor emeritus

Simon Fraser UniversityBritish Columbia

Canada

www.paulshaker.com

Designing Education for Development and

Meaning:Teaching with

Analytic Psychology

Context…

Gabrielle Spiegel, Johns Hopkins University

“The Task of the Historian,” Presidential Address, American Historical

Association, New York, January 2, 2009.

“think piece”…a piece of writing meant to be thought-provoking and speculative that consists chiefly of background material and personal opinion and analysis

Design…

Design…in light of theory

Modernism•Empirical science leads to all

knowledge•Consensus

•Individualism, capitalism, urbanism, industrialization are central

•European and North American ascendance and colonization

•Technology, mass media, digitalization

•The forms of representative democracy

•The idea of progress and temporality

“Escaping Criticism” (1874) by Pere Borrell del Caso

Postmodernism•difference, plurality, textuality,

scepticism•loss of a metanarrative and identity•inventing new rules, changing the

game•role of chance and contingency

•subjectivation

“Campbell’s Soup Can (Tomato)” (1962) by Andy WarholPrice realized, 2010, $9,042,500.

Post-postmodernism•the expression of human values

that are non-material, such as spirituality

•a style of humanistic transparency and sincerity, as opposed to irony

and cynicism, or faith in authority or tradition

•acceptance of intuition and feeling as ways of knowing, in addition to

thinking

“Epsom Kitchen” by John Bourne

Post-postmodernism•an oscillation between… a modern sincerity and a

postmodern irony, between hope and melancholy

and empathy and apathy and unity and plurality

and purity and corruption and naïveté and knowingness; between control and commons

and craftsmanship and conceptualism

and pragmatism and utopianism. www.metamodernism.com

“We Will Not Become What We Mean to You” by Barbara Kruger

Post-postmodernism•Validates subjective, personal

values•authentically, without irony,

•and not limited to the material and logical,

•with acceptance of intuition and feeling.

Applications…

Bjarke Ingels Architect

Copenhagen & New York

pragmatic utopianismhedonistic sustainability

http://youtu.be/zDazAHIZOP0

Educate…

Educate…for development and meaning

Develop…

Develop…through addressing learning styles

“The 5 Levels of the 4 Jungian Functions”

 John Fudjack & Patricia Dinkelaker (1995)

http://tap3x.net/ENSEMBLE/mpage3a.html 

“…the definitions of 'thinking' and 'sensing' that are in general usage reflect a comparatively higher level understanding…

“…the definitions of 'thinking' and 'sensing' that are in general usage reflect a comparatively higher level understanding, whereas what is normally meant by the words 'feeling' and 'intuition' refers to comparatively lower levels of accomplishment with respect to those functions.”

Levels of Feeling:

1. eruptions, emotionality2. recognition of emotions &

levels3. processing emotion,

reflecting4. empathy, compassion

5. experiencing interdependence

Levels of Feeling:1. eruptions, emotionality

Schadenfreude2. recognition of emotions &

levelspity

3. processing emotion, reflectingsympathy

4. empathy, compassionempathy

5. experiencing interdependence

bodhisattva

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, Nepal, 14th C., by Donald Macauley

“All the sages preached a spirituality of empathy and compassion; they insisted that people must abandon their egotism and greed, their violence

and unkindness.”

Karen Armstrong, The Great Transformation

“Remorse” by John Bourne

Levels of Intuition:

1. hunches, suspicions, “gut”2. reflection on dreams,

imagining3. brainstorming, creating

symbols4. creating paradigms

5. defining one’s meaning

Levels of Intuition:

1. hunches, suspicions, “gut”2. reflection on dreams,

imagining3. brainstorming, creating

symbols4. creating paradigms

5. defining one’s meaning

“Evolution of Consciousness” by Steve McIntosh (2007) after Ken Wilbur

Develop…with awareness of transformations

The strength acquired at any stage is tested by the necessity to transcend it in such a way that the individual can take chances in the next stage with what was most vulnerably precious in the previous one.

Erik Erikson, Childhood and Society

“Connoisseur” (1961) by Norman Rockwell

‘Why then, does this accommodation remain… superficial, and why does it not at once lead to correcting the sensory impression by rational truth?’

Jean Piaget, The Construction of Reality in the Child

‘Because…primitive accommodation of thought… is undifferentiated from a distorting assimilation of reality to the self and is at the same time oriented in the opposite direction.’

Educate…for development and meaning

Educate…for meaning

Where the USA looks for “modern” meaning…

present over future;material over psychological;logic over feeling;monoculture over multiculture;competition over community;change over tradition;individual over group.

Donald Trump

Where the USA looks for “postmodern” meaning…

“The loss of a continuous meta-narrative therefore breaks the subject into heterogeneous moments of subjectivity that do not cohere into an identity.”“The Postmodern Condition” (1984) J.-F. Lyotard

Andy Warhol self-portrait, silkscreen version sold for $27,522,500 in 2011

Where the USA looks for “post-postmodern” meaning…

Affirming subjective, personal values authentically, without irony. Values that are not limited to the material and logical but that address intuition and feeling.

Where the USA looks for “post-postmodern” meaning…

Finding community, reflecting on symbols, accepting differences among others, appreciating Nature.

As demonstrated by the confluence of history, literature, and mass media…

“…literary historicity is the characteristic of representations and assertions in prose that qualify for inclusion in justified belief, or knowledge of the world.”

“The very fact that we are being offered trauma, memory, experience, and the sublime as post-postmodern interests should tell us clearly enough that we are not turning back to any place that looks empirical in the old confident sense.”

“…if there are no permanent or fixed forms anchoring thought and expression, then high degrees of pragmatic stability and continuity of use will have to serve the purpose…”

--Nancy Partner

For stability and use in developing meaning…

Jung defines Self as the "archetype of wholeness and the regulating center of the psyche."

“The ego is the center of consciousness, whereas the Self is the center of the total personality.”

As the Ego struggles in dreams, so does the Self struggle in waking life.

“Life is a dream of the Self.”

“Postgraduates” by John Bourne

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