Classroom Talk
Winter 2002 Archive
Re: Mindfulness in the classroom Posted by Sally on March 26, 2002 at 03:05:12:
In Reply to: Re: Mindfulness in the classroom posted by Douglas on March 23, 2002 at 21:48:37:
Hi Annette~
Glad to see you found this class, and hope to hear more from
you.Mindfulness would be a great tool to teach highschool kids,and save
them years of trial and error as I have gone through. Just one word of
warning....we still haven't gotten a clear definition of "creative
apperception" from Douglas yet, so I went 'searching'. This is what I
found, and it may help you with deciding if it "strikes a chord" with
you or not. I have a much clearer "understanding' of the term now
myself.....
"Apperception is similar to selective attention, the active voluntary
processes by which mental experiences enter the focal point of
consciousness." What I would like to know Douglas, is WHY couldn't you
have just said selective attention? Why make it incomprehensible
instead of clear?
Also...here is the rest of the "quote" which makes it more
understandable for we that are "slow"...
". . . in play, and perhaps only in playing, the child or adult is free
to be creative, and to use the whole personality, and it is only in
being creative that the individual discovers the self . . . . . It is
creative apperception more than anything else that makes the individual
feel that life is worth living. Contrasted with this is the
relationship to external reality which is one of compliance, the world
and its details being recognized but only a something to be fitted in
with of demanding adaptation. Compliance carries with it a sense of
futility for the individual and is associated with the idea that
nothing matters and that life is not worth living. In a tantalizing way
many individuals have experienced just enough creative living to
recognize that for most of the time they are living uncreatively, as if
caught up in the creativity of someone else, or a machine." D. W.
Winnicott, Playing and Reality (Tavistock, 1971)
Sally ;-)
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