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Footprints of Chaos and Order

9/18/2012. 2. Introduction. It is said that life has two stories: a person sets out on a journey, and a stranger comes knocking on the door.. 9/18/2012. 3. Chaos in Literature

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Footprints of Chaos and Order

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    1. 9/18/2012 1 Footprints of Chaos (and Order) Adult Narratives of Growth & Development CSER 2005 Irene Karpiak, PhD Adult & Higher Education University of Oklahoma

    2. 9/18/2012 2 Introduction It is said that life has two stories: a person sets out on a journey, and a stranger comes knocking on the door.

    3. 9/18/2012 3 Chaos in Literature & Film Film: Butterfly Effect Film: Changing Lanes Novel: Elective Affinities Similarly autobiographies could be analyzed through the lens of chaos and complexity The idea of turn of events, bifurcations, choices

    4. 9/18/2012 4 Outline of the Presentation To explore chaos & complexity To consider its relationship to adult development To analyze student autobiographies Consider dimensions of bifurcation as ‘singular moments’ in these students’ development

    5. 9/18/2012 5 Prigogine: Order Out of Chaos A metaphor and a promising model for exploring how being in flux and far-from-equilibrium, can hold the potential for development “…. once you see that the world is sufficiently complex, then the problem of value becomes different…. ..What we are doing leads to one of the branches of the bifurcation. Our action is constructing the future.” Prigogine

    6. 9/18/2012 6 Highlighting Prigogine "the poet of thermodynamics" Being and Becoming: toward increased complexity and order Self-transcendence vs. conservative self-organization (or generation vs. preservation) Bifurcation Order through Fluctuation Non-equilibrium properties

    7. 9/18/2012 7 Psychological Perspectives Ken Wilber (1995): Translation--horizontal development Transformation--vertical development Schroots (2000): Bifurcation as Branching Csikszentmihalyi (1993): Differentiation and Integration Schachtel (1984): Embeddedness vs.. Activity Affect Kegan (1982): Development: a process of emergence from embeddedness

    8. 9/18/2012 8 Autobiography Every person has a story to be told Autobiography transforms story into written text Being Unique--Autobiography it focuses on the whole of ones life Provides opportunity for authors to: Reflect on patterns of life Discover deeper meanings Consider the “larger story” revealed

    9. 9/18/2012 9 Function of Autobiography (for the author) See inside and to understand more about events Determine relevance of events and experiences Learn ‘how I came to be who I am” Bring the elements of his/her life to consciousness--into the light

    10. 9/18/2012 10 Autobiography Reveals (for the Researcher) Life’s turning points How these redirect lives down one path or another Moments and Efforts to deal deal with life events Choices Decisions Unique and shared aspects of human aging over the life span How society, culture or family patterns are reflected in individual lives

    11. 9/18/2012 11 The Practice of Autobiography Guidelines “Imagine that a publisher has asked you to write five chapters of your life story. Consider a title for each of the chapters and write two to three pages for each chapter.”

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