Came across this video of Dan Pink at TED 2009 in Michel Martin's blog. After attending a presentation by Pink at the Kennedy Center in 2008, I recall pondering what the world would be like if more of Pink's thinking was adopted by mainstream educational and business practices? Then I stopped daydreaming and woke up to the Realpolitik of my daily office culture...
From this video: one question might be what gets in the way of our moving from extrinsic to intrinsic motivational systemic structures? To what extent do environmental conditions support:
Autonomy: The urge to direct our own lives
Mastery: The desire to get better at something that matters.
Purpose: The yearning to do what we do in the service of something larger than ourselves
Ramblings: Would not these three principles guide well learning experiences, lessons, projects or problem solving situations at all learning levels, not just for adults? The instructional scaffolding for youth is of course different, while the building blocks to autonomy must start early in development. Autonomy is a discovery process, complex, multilayered, personal - a solid sense of self in relationship to other and secure in one's own skin and intrinsic-extrinsic power. Human environments often reflect just the opposite created out of less secure psyches.
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