I thought this was a terrific video to show because in my opinion, it ties in completely to the subject of affective education. Dr. Bandura states that certain children watched a filmed adult exhibit physical acts of aggression as well as emit hostile remarks towards the inflated doll. The children clearly were influenced by the adult's behavior and later kicked, beat and threw the doll around and used abusive language. When these children found other toys in the room, they chose to use them in a hostile fashion against the doll. It is noted that children who did not view the adult committing aggressive acts against the doll, did not exhibit aggressive behavior. This video is a powerful example of observational learning; to observe, then imitate.
There is an extraordinary need for everyone to look beyond our one-person bubbles and realize that everyone comes from vastly different environments and that is important to look closer at a person and not rush to judgment. When a child is developing and grows up in a hostile home, it creates a very dangerous situation. When a very young boy, who doesn't know any better, sees his father continually beating and swearing at his mother, he comes to believe this is as acceptable. He enters the school system and he might be causing trouble by tormenting his peers physically and/or verbally and by negatively influencing others. In a study presented in Nice is Not Enough, students rated highest those teachers who pointed out the negative effects of a person who is causing physical and/or emotional pain. An example was a teacher saying, "Carlos, that really hurts Mike" (Nucci, 2009). The student who is causing the grief might realize that what was observed at home is actually unacceptable and brings about negative consequences. As school counselors, it is important for us to get the necessary background information of each child/young adult who is labeled a "bad kid" or a "problem child." It is also imperative that we reach out to them and find ways to allow them to see that good behaviors reap the rewards.
Final Exit Ticket
Congratulations! You have completed your course on Affective Education. How quickly the time has passed. Each week there was something new to read, process, analyze and evaluate. Believe it or not, I was learning right along with you. How could I not? Considering that many of you provided such rich professional insight. I am a firm believer that it is always good to look at material, theories, and educational frameworks from different perspectives. For that, I thank you. Nonetheless, every course has its highlights; those moments whereby things simply stand-out and make a lot of sense, which leads to our final exit ticket. Please answer the following questions, what was the “ah ha moment for you”? And as a result, what new knowledge have you constructed through our eight week dialogue on Affective Education that strengthened your confidence about teaching moral education?
Albert Bandura
Bobo Doll Experiment
Video Link to the Bobo Doll Experiment
Review the video depicting Albert Bandura's Bobo Doll Experiment, which looks at aggression, observational and imitative learning. Share your opinion on how or why this experiment fits (or does not fit) into a discussion about affective education. Be sure to support your opinion. This counts as exit tickets for weeks 5 & 6. I look forward to reading your posts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh7MngntnI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdh7MngntnI
The Stages of Moral Development
It has been noted that the Domain Theory was established in an attempt to "categorize behaviors into either a moral or social domain"(Freday, 2009), however prior classification systems, such as Kohlberg's theory of moral development, placed morality and social convention in the same developmental domain. Domain theory separates the two and goes on to highlight the differences in a child's development of each (Freday, 2009, para. 2). Do you agree or disagree? Post your views.
With that noted, click on the You Tube link provided. View the Kohlberg video that explores the stages of moral development and post your views and reations to the video in no less than a 100 words. You may use the book or any other reading from class to support your views. Just be inclined to cite your sources. I look forward to reading your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4etXWYS84
With that noted, click on the You Tube link provided. View the Kohlberg video that explores the stages of moral development and post your views and reations to the video in no less than a 100 words. You may use the book or any other reading from class to support your views. Just be inclined to cite your sources. I look forward to reading your post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zY4etXWYS84
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
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Matt- I appreciated you incorporating the home environment into your commentary since violence often starts with the family, right? I also thought your "one-person" bubble. Do you mind if I coin your term, "The one-person Bo-Bo concept"?
ReplyDeleteI don't mind at all Julie, not at all. :)
ReplyDeleteMatt-I agree that this video of the famous "BoBo Doll" experiment is extremely powerful when talking about the affect of observational learning, modeling behaviors, and imitation. I also appreciated that you incorporated the home environment in your response. Before I even read your response that is exactly what I was thinking as I viewed the video. I work with so many kids who come from a hostile home or are poorly influnced by their surroundings and I think it is important for teachers to acknowledge this. It becomes too easy to label the "bad" kid in class, but when we as future educators do not take the time to ask ourselves "why" a child acts a certain way, we then face he challenge of knowing "how" to affectively lead a classroom or counsel them appropriately.
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