Please spend 15 minutes reading about Ken Wilber at the link below, focusing especially on the sections titled “Lines, streams, or intelligences,” and “Levels or stages.”
Draw at least three comparisons between Wilbers view in those sections and the research you all presented on your slides.
Wow, well, first I want to say that after briefly reading this page, it's hard for me to take Wilber seriously. The phrase that comes to mind when thinking about his ideas is "too many cooks in the kitchen". I feel like his ideas are just a mis-mash of legitimate science theories and scientists' ideas. He does, however, talk about multiple intelligences, which is an idea based on brain-based science that I have always thought made a great amount of sense - where he loses me is the idea that a) there is a moral intelligence. I feel like morals are more a nurture thing and don't belong in the same place as the more learning-based intelligences. I feel like most of his work doesn't tie quite so directly back to concepts from our research this week, but concepts that are prevalent in all (good) education classes - the idea of personal verses social mind and space, the idea of learning and brain development as a process that people have to move through - but honestly, I'm just unconvinced that this guy is anything special, it just seems like a lot of generalizations and misappropriations of others' work.
ReplyDeleteI realize now I should specify who I think his works are derivative of: Erikson, Piaget and even Freud's theories all seem to be a part of his work. It just seems nonsensical to me.
DeleteFor me, I read most of the entire wikipedia entry on this gentleman, however I had a very difficult time honing in on what his central thesis was. I liked Lauren's description of there being 'too many cooks in the kitchen' in regard to his work. I don't want to discredit him but I just don't see what new scholarly theory he brings to the table. It does say that he is perhaps synthesizing the theories of Kohlberg, Maslow, Freud, Jung and others. Maybe he is trying to take the parts he considers valid from each and form his own theory but that is sort of what we all do as professionals. He advocates the multiple intelligences but he includes or changes some of the intelligences like in the case of 'karmic intelligence' which I doubt is as solid research as Gardener's intelligences which, scholarly as they are, are criticized in and of themselves. I honestly do not really see any other comparions between them and our slides.
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ReplyDeleteKen Wilber is part of new age religion and is a Buddhist and I prefer not to read his work.
ReplyDeleteAfter careful consideration and this is what I have come up with regarding this question.
Delete“Lines, streams, or intelligences,” and “Levels or stages.”
Normal States can be related to sleep and learning theory- since states are usually referring to normal stages of awareness such as waking, dreaming and deep sleep.
This statement could be related to multiple intelligences---According to Wilber, all holons have multiple lines of development, or intelligences—in fact, over two dozen have been observed.[citation needed] They include cognitive, ethical, aesthetic, spiritual, kinesthetic, affective, musical, spatial, logical-mathematical, karmic, etc. One can be highly developed cognitively (cerebrally smart) without being highly morally developed (as in the case of Nazi doctors). However, Wilber acknowledges, you cannot be highly morally developed without the pre-requisite cognitive development. So not all of the developmental lines are ontologically equivalent.[citation needed]
Behavorism—In Wilber’s four quadrants -Exterior individual accounts (upper-right) include B. F. Skinner's behaviorism, which limits itself to the observation of the behavior of organisms and treats the internal experience, decision making or volition of the subject as a black box, and which with the fourth perspective emphasizes the subject as a specimen to examine, or "It".
That was a little confusing, but I can see the similarites to a few of the multiple intelligences, specifically the interpersonal and intrapersonal. There's also a direct quote involving behaviorism.
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