Robert Kegan explaining his adult developmental theory, with @dthorson
“If you want to be Stage 5 because all the cool kids are, that’s a Stage 3 aspiration. If you want it because Stage 5 is the Correct way of thinking, that’s a Stage 4 aspiration.”https://anchor.fm/emerge/episodes/Robert-Kegan---The-Five-Stages-of-Adult-Development-And-Why-You-Probably-Arent-Stage-5-eb8gug …
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Replying to @Meaningness @dthorson
I work w communities in which there is very little education and maximum trauma. I have news for Kegan, those communities of people can understand and respond to complexity much better than any academic I have met. Why? Because they have been betrayed by the system. Level 5? Meh.
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Kegan has a model based on longitudinal experimental data of a demographically limited population. No claims of universality. Interdependence can be understood (but differently) & a motivator (for different reasons) throughout development. The model isn't elitist. It just is.
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Replying to @michaelgarfield @NoraBateson and
Where's the place to look for Kegan's main longitudinal study? Is there really one, or does it kind of sit behind the books, in a not very obvious way? ;-) He also says it doesn't correlate with IQ. Never links to any research proving this this though...
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Replying to @MatthewMezey @NoraBateson and
I did try and find a journal link just now and had some trouble. All citations do seem to lead back to his books. I remember his data in In Over Our Heads but without it in front of me I couldn't tell you were they 1st appeared.
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Replying to @michaelgarfield @MatthewMezey and
Afaict the six-year longitudinal study (promised in _SOI Guide_ p249) was not only never published, even summary data has never been discussed. I assume the empirical work was not completed due to unfortunate circumstances of some sort or another.
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I know that the tragic death of Kohlberg at just that time profoundly affected everyone in the Harvard PSR department (I was doing graduate course work there then) which might be the explanation. Pure speculation though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg#Death …
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