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Metamodern Spirituality | Nuancing the Stage Theory Discussion (w/ Zak Stein)

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  • Nov 23, 2021
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Brendan Graham Dempsey
@BrendanGrahamDempsey
(Host)
Zak Stein
@ZakStein
(Guest)
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Zak Stein is a writer and educator with a doctorate in human development and education from Harvard University. Working with Kurt Fischer, he helped further hone and nuance developm... Show More

Zak Stein is a writer and educator with a doctorate in human development and education from Harvard University. Working with Kurt Fischer, he helped further hone and nuance developmental stage theories as part of the neo-Piagetian consensus. Deeply influenced by integral philosophy, he has also articulated many crucial critiques of the movement in an attempt to emphasize the dynamical and contextual nature of stage assessments. Here Zak and Brendan discuss just what the science tells us about the reality of stages; the problems around their simplification, reification, and misapplication; the question of how well they map onto socio-cultural development; the importance of processual vs. categorical thinking; and what development can and can't do as part of a metamodern spiritual metanarrative.

0:00 Introduction
1:12 Static Stages or Dynamic Processes? A Metapsychological Clarification
10:18 Being "at" a Stage? Development as an Ecology of Skillsets
19:23 Non-Linear Growth and Ranges of Operation: Fractal Skill-Chunking across Domains
24:05 The Car Mechanic and the Quantum Mechanic: Transferable Skills and the Importance of Embodiment
28:55 Roots of Cognitive Complexity
31:57 The Recapitulation Theory: Does Phylogeny Map Ontogeny?
36:50 The Growth to Goodness Issue: Complexification and Pathology
41:31 Better Heuristics than Stages? Learning Processes, Capacity Asymmetries, and Dynamics of Teacherly Authority
48:18 Theory vs. (Mis)Application: Are Stage Theories Just "B.S. and Colonial as Hell"?
59:41 Generalizing Developmental Space
1:05:30 Development as Metanarrative? Stage Theories and the Religion that's not a Religion

Zak's website:
http://www.zakstein.org/

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David Chapman @DavidChapman · Apr 5, 2022
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🧵Excellent discussion of adult developmental stage theory. I started writing a piece a few days ago about the truth and usefulness of the theory (both questionable!). Zak Stein says some of what I was going to. I think he concedes a bit too much though…
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