Re:Emotional Blocks as Obstacles to Learning
by dls2016 on Monday June 15, 2020 @11:18AM
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> How to identify areas of false beliefs in yourself?
I don't know how to answer this question in general, but as a teaching assistant I thought about this in relation to the classroom. Obviously as I teacher I wanted students to be able to identify false mathematical beliefs.
First I asked the students to rate how much they agree with a set of statements like: world hunger is a serious problem that needs attention.
Then I asked how frequently they perform such actions, such as: do you personally do anything to lessen world hunger?
I didn't prepare them for the experiment very well and it went pretty awkwardly... I wish I would have tried it more than once.
The idea is to get people familiar with the feeling of dissonance or discomfort. Because the human brain is supremely lazy and has all sorts of tricks for suppressing dissonance, how would you navigate your social interactions otherwise?
In the classroom you have the additional problem even if you think you don't understand something you don't want to admit that in front of your peers.
I don't know how to answer this question in general, but as a teaching assistant I thought about this in relation to the classroom. Obviously as I teacher I wanted students to be able to identify false mathematical beliefs.
I ended up performing an experiment based on this paper: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.934...
First I asked the students to rate how much they agree with a set of statements like: world hunger is a serious problem that needs attention.
Then I asked how frequently they perform such actions, such as: do you personally do anything to lessen world hunger?
I didn't prepare them for the experiment very well and it went pretty awkwardly... I wish I would have tried it more than once.
The idea is to get people familiar with the feeling of dissonance or discomfort. Because the human brain is supremely lazy and has all sorts of tricks for suppressing dissonance, how would you navigate your social interactions otherwise?
In the classroom you have the additional problem even if you think you don't understand something you don't want to admit that in front of your peers.