For the moment I stopped my little study on ‘development in self-directed learning’. It doesn’t mean I’m really finished but I wrote down what I found out till now and will certainly take things up again in the future. Simply no time in the coming weeks. But so far I’m quite happy with what I did.
The main conclusion is that I found out that my initial question on what would be steps to develop as a self-directed learner shouldn’t be the question to continue with. As I already wrote in the last blog I think the linear thinking behind the idea of steps and stages is to limited. At the same moment that puts me into a quite challenging position. How to approach things when you don’t want to think (or not only) in a linear way? I’m quite used to think about things in a linear way. Being at the same time aware that I don’t act like that. But to understand things I use ‘linear thinking’. There are models looking at human behaviour that use circles, which is anyway a step out of ‘a simple line’. But also there you see certain steps that lead to improvement….. it still is a line…
Well…I’m sure I’m not the first one thinking that linear thinking doesn’t solve all problems so there must be a lot to find on that topic. Which will be my next move. But will take some time. For the coming weeks a full agenda where I hope to meet some people that can discuss this challenge and help me further.
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back to your blog dear Paul...always stimulating and inspiring. I have to read more deeply what you wrote, but is already like to get gasoline with things and words like "linear thinking"..."circles"..."step out of simple line"...floating in my mind ;)
ReplyDeleteand I don't know why but 2 phrases of a recent song cames suddenly in my mind reading what you wrote:: "Spent the night trying to make a deadline...
Squeezing complicated lives into a simple headline.."! it still is about line.. ciao Paul
Hi Paul, going round in circles, but still an improuvement: Geometrically this is what a spiral is doing, or a screw. It goes round in circles and still has a direction. This picture is used by the so called spiral-curiculum, and I am shure you use it. At last in ToT there is elements that come up again and again - like the question of european values, underlying every training - and get more and more deepened and connected what people experience, perceive, and act on.
ReplyDeleteIf you think on radical going in circles, that's a step beyond and that's what logical thinking can't reach, it is getting to the new thinking, that the old logical thinking can not understand: Creativity is a step into the un-predictible so it can't be measured, explained and programmed by the mind. Where is that learning coming from?
Seems almost to be a mystical or a theological phenomenon.
Thanks for sharing that question,
Michael