Human Dynamics in Education: Highlights

Human Dynamics in Education: Highlights

For over a decade, primarily in schools in the USA and Canada, approximately 282 videotaped recordings have been made of 9 and 10 year old children asked to design your ideal park or recreation area. These children cross culture, race and gender. They are grouped in 3s according to their personality dynamic. These children had never met before, but had perhaps seen each other on the playground.

They were brought into a room, with professional cameras, and several large tables, including a large variety of materials with which to design their park.. There was sand, clay, rocks, people, trees, sticks, cars, etc.

The children were first introduced to one another, and then shown the variety of materials available to them. They were given approximately 45 minutes for this task. Professional cameras documented the process and results of five different personality dynamic groups engaged in a similar assignment.

This particular research project has yielded some outstanding instructional material for teachers and parents. They clearly demonstrate:

The distinct processes of childrens learning including their specific needs for

communication, time, order, space, context, clarity, etc. They have stood the test of

time, and are therefore used in every introductory Human Dynamics seminar in the

USA, Canada, Sweden, the Netherlands, Israel, Singapore, Brazil, Ireland, Costa Rica,

the Philippines, Malaysia, Shanghai, to being to demonstrate the specificity and

distinction among the 5 predominant personality dynamic groups.

In 1987 1988, twenty-five teachers traveled to 4 countries (USA, Canada, Sweden

and Israel) to study the link between the personality dynamics of children and their

specific process of learning. Approximately 500 students were involved. Through

observations, interviews and videotaped recordings, this link was explored. The results

were the beginning of an educational program for teachers and parents that began in

1989. This Teacher Training Program has been refined and redesigned over the years.

Ongoing work has been and is being conducted in the USA, Sweden, the Netherlands,

Canada, Israel and Singapore. We have educational Human Dynamics licensed

facilitators in every culture except Singapore. Singapore educators will be trained in

2003. Ongoing training and development of our facilitators is annual.

Canada:

In 1985, Carol Brooks, Ph.D., conducted a study with the goal of exploring different learning processes based on Human Dynamics understandings. The subjects of the study were 130 women who were studying technical and business subjects at the college level.

The results show that when their learning methods were taken into account, the students worked more effectively, in particular the emotionally centered students. The study served as the basis for a training program used in Canada, Australia and England and is presented in Working with Female Relational Learners in Technology and Trades Training (1986).

Sweden:

10,000 teachers participated in Human Dynamics teacher training programs from 1989 2002.

2 (1/2 hour) documentaries were presented on the Educational Channel in Sweden in the late 90s.

Conferences have been presented on Human Dynamics in Education.

Presentations made at Teacher Training colleges.

Our book translated into Swedish.

Please feel free to reproduce this article as long as you give credit to the author as follows: By Sandra Seagal, Ph.D. www.HumanDynamics.com

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