Pick a movie below and answer the following questions. In your initial post, answer the following questions about the characters in the film you chose. (A brief paragraph per question.) See Rubric attached

1.  Describe the specific assumptions or beliefs the characters have in the beginning of the film. Why do they hold these assumptions/beliefs?

2.  What do they learn about other people or about the world that challenges their long held beliefs? Describe an incident (or series of incidents) that causes a revelation to the character(s).

3.  How do the goals or desires of the characters change by the end of the film?

4.  In your view, describe the learning/reflective concept from the course readings that best represents the development of a major character.

5.  In the film, with which character did you most identify (in terms of how his/her attitude or assumptions changed)?

·  Promised Land (2012)

·  Nobody’s Fool (1994)

·  How to Make an American Quilt (1995)

·  Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood (2002)

ORGL3000. The Three Phases of Reflection and the Self in Kolb

Below, see one of Kolb’s own diagrams describing how this process of reflective learning is
developmental, how it actually develops the self, and gives you new ways of interacting with the
world. To read a diagram like this, imagine yourself moving up the diagram from the bottom in the
same direction as the arrow on the left side. Then read the different descriptions of the self on the
right side. Our three Reflective Seminars, ORGL 3000, 3050 and 4000, correspond to these three
phases.

In ORGL 3000, you focus on yourself as an “acquisition” phase learner. You analyze your own
assumptions, beliefs and feelings as they relate to specific learning experiences. As you
develop more skill, more ability to work with complex ideas, with other people, with a social and
physical context, you enter the ORGL 3050 “specialization” phase. You are aware of disagreements
and other ideas more in this phase, and your learning experiences will involve negotiating those
differences as you interact with the world. The third phase, of “integration”, is the more mature phase
in which you have learned more about how to interact with the world and you are able to transform, to
adapt, to new situations and new schools of thought. In ORGL 4000 you will be writing about this
level of self and reflection. In the Capstone course, ORGL 4690, you will be focusing on how your
previous experiences and learning connect and integrate with your current degree program.

Figure 6.3 from Kolb, David A. (1984). Experiential learning: Experience as the source of learning and
development. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Photo of David A. Kolb from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:David_Kolb

ORGL 3000. Kegan & Lahey. Three Phases in Adult Mental
Development (Teams and Leaders)
Here’s another conceptual framework to help you reflect and think about learning. When we think about how our context,
especially our social context, can influence how we learn, one conclusion we might come to is that at times we behave as
either followers or leaders. In their work on reflective learning, Kegan and Lahey describe a developmental process in
terms of leadership. Consider how this model can apply to you, especially you as a “self-transforming mind.”

Are you a team player or are you an agenda-driven, independent leader….or are you moving toward being an
interdependent, self-transforming leader?

From: Kegan, Robert, & Lahey, Lisa Laskow (2010). From subject to object: A constructive-
developmental approach to reflective practice (chapter 22, pp. 433-449) in Nona Lyons (Ed.)
Handbook of Reflection and Reflective Inquiry. New York: Springer.

Photo of Robert Kegan taken from: https://www.gse.harvard.edu/faculty/robert-kegan
Photo of Lisa Laskow Lahey from taken from: https://www.amazon.com/Lisa-Laskow-
Lahey/e/B001KH9ZQC