They are assimilating it into their current concept of what is poetry and, in this case, what it is not.
Rick Rick Froman [email protected] From: DeVolder Carol L [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:59 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Piaget and Poetry I can't help but wonder though, where you would put someone who refused to assimilate or accommodate, and simply said, "It wasn't poetry." Carol Carol DeVolder, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology Chair, Department of Psychology St. Ambrose University Davenport, Iowa 52803 phone: 563-333-6482 e-mail: [email protected] From: Michael Britt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 12:04 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Piaget and Poetry Ok, now it's starting to come together for me. Ken what you're saying here fits in with another thought that came to me the other day. Here goes: if I think "poetry" consists of what I find on a birthday card: I hope you enjoy your birthday, All the pleasures it has in store, And because I appreciate you, I hope you have many more! Then the benediction by Rev. Joseph Lowery ("...when yellow will be mellow ... when the red man can get ahead, man; and when white will embrace what is right. ..") - which by the way was received very positively - and indeed your limerick, would easily be assimilated as "poetry". However, Ms. Alexander's poem was just too different for many people to be able to assimilate. So, one would need to accommodate one's schema of "poetry" (assuming, as Gary pointed out in a previous post, that a person saw this issue as an "an environmental challenge" that needed resolving). Agreed? Michael Michael Britt [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.thepsychfiles.com<http://www.thepsychfiles.com> On Jan 29, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Ken Steele wrote: One example could be Jabberwocky... 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. The words are nonsense but it sounds meaningful because it fits our schema of what a poem should sound like. Ken Michael Britt wrote: Ok. I'll buy that. So, can you give an example of how assimilation would occur in this context? Michael Michael Britt [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.thepsychfiles.com <http://www.thepsychfiles.com> On Jan 28, 2009, at 8:02 PM, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote: Any time you modify a schema to take in new information, that is accomodation. In a message dated 1/28/2009 1:08:57 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> writes: So the first question is: Is adding into your schema of "poetry" that "poetry is words that evoke images" an example of assimilation or accommodation? I'm thinking assimilation. --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Professor and Assistant Chairperson Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
