[Xmca-l] Re: Отв: Development of adults

[White, Phillip]

Ulvi, i believe that it is important to keep in mind the heteronormativity implicit as well as explicit constructed in adult development theories.  William Perry's original work was based on male undergraduates at Harvard.  Kohlberg's theory or moral development is grounded in western technologies, values and religious beliefs.  while Carol Gilligan's and Nell Nodding's work has been grounded in feminist theory, little have been done with critical race theory.  in fact, just now i'm reminded of Jose E. Limon's "Dancing with the Devil" (1994), in which he attempted to understand the society and cultural poetics of Mexican-American South Texas, that while Marxist theory could cast light on male behaviour it was of no use in understand women's behaviour.  at his wife's suggestion, Limon then turned to feminist theory to understand the women's behaviour.


thus far, suggestions for literature readings have focused on straight, white European males.  i'd like to suggest James Baldwin's "Giovanni's Room", and Virginia Woolf's "Between the Acts" as additional examples.  as well, while it has been suggested that once it was assumed that moving through the developments of childhood resulted in full participation within the adult community, as Lave and Wenger in "Situated Learning" (1991), full legitimate participation is not guaranteed.  certainly recent events around sexual harassment of women or black live matter demonstrate that this is hardly the case.  also, Paul Robinson's "Gay Lives: Homosexual autobiography from John Addington Symonds to Paul Monette" (1999).  again, all of my suggestions are within the cultural domain of white, european culture.  but, it's a start.


i suggest that using a culturally ground theory - particularly critical race, feminist, & queer theory - while begin to bring greater understanding and enlightenment on adult development that illuminates the struggles of adult development within marginalised communities.


and finally, which adult education is often focused on skills-based instruction for reemployment due to changing economic conditions and technologies, often what corporations want are compliant workers, docile bodies (Foucault).


good luck on your venture.


phillip



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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2017 11:08:21 PM
To: Alexander Surmava; eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity
Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Отв: Development of adults

Thanks!

16 Kas 2017 21:08 tarihinde "Alexander Surmava" <alexander.surmava@yahoo.com>
yazdı:

> Dear Ulvi
> I think it's pointless to look for books about the development of adults
> among treatises on "psychology".  The best books on this topic were written
> by William Shakespeare and John Byron, Leo Tolstoy and Anton Chekhov, Emil
> Zola and Stendhal. And yet, all the philosophers wrote about the
> development of adults. But not modern philosophers positivists and
> postmodernists, but philosophers belonging to classical philosophy. From
> Thales and Anaxagoras, to Spinoza, Hegel and Marx. To the connoisseurs of
> the human soul, I would classify the classics of political economy - Adam
> Smith, David Ricardo, Jean Charles Sismondi. And again, Marx with Engels,
> and Ilyenkov.I agree with Andy, only Leontiev is worth reading from
> psychologists. But even in case of Leontiev it's worth to reed his texts in
> the last turn. After all of the above.Personality is what its activity is.
> And human activity develops not according to the mythical "laws of the
> psyche", but in the system of real historically established relationships
> with other people about the joint production of their common life, and
> therefore according to the laws studied by political economy, history,
> legal science, according to the laws of nature at last.The best
> "psychological" books on the psychology of adults - this is not science,
> but bad bellectristics. Do not waste time reading bad literatue if you can
> read GOOD literature.Enjoy reading,Sasha
>
>       От: Ulvi İçil <ulvi.icil@gmail.com>
>  Кому: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
>  Отправлено: четверг, 16 ноября 2017 16:20
>  Тема: [Xmca-l] Development of adults
>
> Can anyone propose one or two good books on develeopment beyond adolescence
> please, a similar one to mike's development of children?
> Thanks.
> Ulvi
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