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Postformal EducationPostformal in Psychology: Beyond Piaget’s Formal Operations

Postformal Education: Postformal in Psychology: Beyond Piaget’s Formal Operations [I expect that this chapter will be the most challenging for readers with limited prior knowledge of adult developmental psychology. It has certainly been the most challenging to write—largely because there is so much material on higher stages of reasoning, yet so little coherence of it to date. In this chapter we explore a range of adult development theories created by psychologists who saw beyond the limits of Piaget’s cognitive model. I introduce the main researchers who have identified and described postformal reasoning qualities and reiterate the shift from formal to postformal reasoning. The postformal reasoning features they identify are listed, and from these I theorise and discuss twelve distinct postformal reasoning qualities. By the end you will have a coherent picture of how postformal reasoning is conceptually aligned with four themes distilled from the evolution of consciousness research.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Postformal EducationPostformal in Psychology: Beyond Piaget’s Formal Operations

Part of the Critical Studies of Education Book Series (volume 3)
Postformal Education — Aug 12, 2016

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing AG 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-29068-3
Pages
101 –131
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-29069-0_5
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Abstract

[I expect that this chapter will be the most challenging for readers with limited prior knowledge of adult developmental psychology. It has certainly been the most challenging to write—largely because there is so much material on higher stages of reasoning, yet so little coherence of it to date. In this chapter we explore a range of adult development theories created by psychologists who saw beyond the limits of Piaget’s cognitive model. I introduce the main researchers who have identified and described postformal reasoning qualities and reiterate the shift from formal to postformal reasoning. The postformal reasoning features they identify are listed, and from these I theorise and discuss twelve distinct postformal reasoning qualities. By the end you will have a coherent picture of how postformal reasoning is conceptually aligned with four themes distilled from the evolution of consciousness research.]

Published: Aug 12, 2016

Keywords: Positive Psychology; High Purpose; Evolutionary Theme; Formal Operation; Transpersonal Psychology

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