Please post your answer as a COMMENT to this blog post.
After completing the online session two and all of the homework, please return to this post and answer the Essential Question for Session Two by posting a comment to this blog entry.
Why have the gifts of the Right Mode been so neglected in education and training?
i.e. Feeling, Intuition, Imaging, Metaphors, and Expressions of Feelings both Verbal and Nonverbal?
Focusing on right-brain activating methods in executive education is often wrongly perceived as too playful rather than professional. It is perceived as working well for children rather than for adults. We focus on developing creativity and imagination when educating our children, singing with them, and inviting them to draw and create. We fully recognise their need to learn about the world through all of their senses. This common sense gets lost as they grow older, and when designing training programmes for adults, we believe that feeling, playing, and experimenting don't work anymore. It is perceived as childish, I argue.
ReplyDeleteOf course. And additionally some of the key elements of the right mode are adult and of high order, are nuanced, i.e. intuition.
ReplyDeleteI consider that the main reason why right mode activity has been neglected in education is that it would have required for the teacher to adapt their teaching methods to each individual in the classroom, to their needs and personal interest. This can be possible when the teacher do not have numerous students or participants in the classroom, however could be challenging when having to convey the message to large classrooms and different personality types. At the same time, I guess engaging both left and right sides in teaching would require more creativity from the teacher or facilitator and the capacity to use the adapted techniques to convey the message; hence it might then be easier to reduce the learning journey to facts, experts naming and logical thinking based on the left side. Also, on the job market, the professions that are the best paid are usually left mode so might also have an impact on what kind of thinking the school tries to develop.
ReplyDeleteThe individuals would not be part of the problem, I was referring to the teaching methods that you would use. When you design a training with 4MAT you alternate between right and left strategies in order for your learners to problem solve with both kinds of skills.. And what ever your job, your ability to have these whole-brain skills would be a plus.
DeleteHistorically, education has been focused on developing left-brain skills, which were seen as essential for success in fields such as math, science, and engineering. This has resulted in a curriculum that places a high value on standardized testing, memorization, and rote learning, which can stifle creativity and the development of the right-brain gifts. Additionally, there is a misconception that the right-brain gifts are not as important as left-brain skills in the workplace, which has led to a lack of emphasis on these skills in training and development programs.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there is a growing recognition of the importance of the right-brain gifts in the workplace and a shift towards developing these skills in education and training programs. For example, I know that many educational institutions and training programs are now incorporating creative thinking and problem-solving skills into their curriculum, recognizing that these skills are essential for success in a rapidly changing world.
Yes, and these skills are are deep kind of knowing. Difficult to describe. One must self know and use them in order to create them in the classroom.
DeleteIn the western world, we have given far too much space to the left-brain way of perceiving the world – to models, calculations, analyses, systems and explanations – to computer-like information processing.
ReplyDeleteIt is true that traditional schoolwork has utilized and developed mainly the strengths of the left half. In recent years, Finnish school education has begun to emphasize the use of image associations in memorizing and recalling information from memory (e.g. learning the vocabulary of a foreign language). Music has been successfully used to imprint information into long-term memory. In addition, intuition has risen in value alongside rational reasoning in problem solving. Creativity and analysis, words and images are also combined in the widespread mind mapping technique. These are only a small part of the teaching, but some examples which the strengths of the right half of the brain can be used in teaching.