Spiritual Formation and Congnitive Development

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

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I have been on this ministry adventure for a few years and I have hit a wall. I am finding that my youth are at a developmental stage that would normally be attributed to middle school students. This is fine, except, they are college students.

I have always said that spiritual formation is all about middle school. If the spiritual formation has not occurred by middle school, well, it’s going to be more difficult.

So, I turned (now, this is where I should have said prayer, or God, or some spiritual wise person, but no, I turned) to wikipedia.

I found an article in the old wiki that really helped me think about this in a new way. I revisited Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development. The wiki article said, “His theory provided many central concepts in the field of developmental psychology and concerned the growth of intelligence, which for Piaget, meant the ability to more accurately represent the world and perform logical operations on representations of concepts grounded in the world. The theory concerns the emergence and acquisition of schemata—schemes of how one perceives the world—in “developmental stages”, times when children are acquiring new ways of mentally representing information.

The theory is considered “constructivist”, meaning that, unlike nativist theories (which describe cognitive development as the unfolding of innate knowledge and abilities) or empiricist theories (which describe cognitive development as the gradual acquisition of knowledge through experience), it asserts that we construct our cognitive abilities through self-motivated action in the world.”

In other words, Piaget believed that people gained gradual acquisition of knowledge through self-motivated action in the world. My formation strategies were assuming a development involveing the unfolding of innate knowledge and abilities or a development caused by the gradual acquisition of knowledge through experience. However, I see this in the students, that they are constructing their cognitive abilities through self motivated action in the world. It is through this self-motivated actions that they develop a schemata on how to perceive the world.

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