"A successful individual typically sets his next goal somewhat but not too much above his last achievement. In this way, he steadily raises his level of aspirations."

"If you want truly to understand something, try to change it."

"Our behaviour is purposeful; we live in a psychological reality or life space that includes not only those parts of our physical and social environment to us but also imagined states that do not currently exist."

Quotes of Kurt Lewin - Father of modern social psychology







Monday, November 24, 2008

Reflections of Session 2

The first official lesson of this new module.. Went to Hall 13's "Bus Stop" for a delicious lunch.. (thanks to Dr Quek who took pains to make sure that our physical needs of a good lunch is well taken care of and even bought drinks for us! Thanks! :D)


Some key learning points for Session 2:

1) Inter-relationship of Lewinian theory (Human behaviour is influenced by the Learning Environment) and Murray's Need-Press Theory - Termed dearly as "THE BIG PICTURE" of this module.

In this BIG PICTURE:
- The learning environment must be congruent with the person, it either supports or hinders the realisation of personal needs and it determines human behaviour. A person has personal needs and his personal needs affect his human behaviour.
- Learning environment can be assessed either by a detached observer (alpha press) or by a participant or group of people in the environment itself (beta press). Key concern of collecting data via alpha press is the high cost while key concerns of collecting data via beta press is biasness of data collected and the expertise and maturity of the participants assessing the learning environment.

2) Different Learning Environments: Learner-Centred, Knowledge-Centred, Assessment Centred and Community-Centred - Based on the book "How People Learn" by Bransford

All these learning environments must overlap to constitute an effective learning environment.


But true to my first post.. the expectations of Dr Quek on us is extremely high.. Nearing the end of the session, just when everyone is ready to pack up and head for home, we are tasked to do a group research on one of the pioneer researchers for learning environment research as homework... sigh.. and to create a WIKI (?!) on it using wetpaint.com.! (Read: Dr Quek is determined to work us hard during our course with her! ;P) Our group is to research on Kurt Lewin and his Field Theory. Found some interesting information on this Founder of Social Psychology and created the wetpaint.com account. Feel free to browse our website at http://www.kurtlewin.wetpaint.com/ but note that it is still "work-in-progress" :) See all of you on Thurs for our next session... Cheers
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