Excerpt from this Zak Stein statement:
"My
basic argument is that, because of their comprehensiveness and
explanatory power, Neo-Piagetian approaches transcend but include
approaches that focus on ego-development. I also suggest that
Neo-Piagetian approaches are less susceptible to misuse as
quasi-religious meaning making tools for ranking the worth of
individuals."
"Many developmentalists engage in
assessment practices and offer frameworks that mystify our
self-understandings and render us unable to define for ourselves our own
sense of self-worth. We become dependent on an expert to tell us if we
are a turquoise, autonomous, integrated, construct-aware, 2nd-tier,
magician, alchemist, or spiral wizard. Are you among these chosen
saviors, or are you merely a conventional, formal operating, conformist,
expert, achiever, or individualist? Just note the normative loading of
the names of the levels themselves. This is a blurring of the lines
between psychology and religion—a pseudoscientific replacement of our
languages of self-understanding and self-evaluation. The Neo-Piagetains
are about dismantling this cult of psychological self-aggrandizement and
they stand against the giving over to experts of the means by which one
evaluates self worth."
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