Learning Dispositions
Dr. Priyanjali S. Walvekar
“Relatively enduring habits of mind or
characteristic ways of responding to experience
across types of situations.”
Disposition:
1. The predominant or prevailing tendency
of one's spirits; natural mental and emotional
outlook or mood; characteristic attitude: a girl
with a pleasant disposition.
2. State of mind regarding something;
inclination: a disposition to gamble.
3. Physical inclination or tendency: the
disposition of ice to melt when heated.
“A habit of mind that disposes the
learner to interpret, edit and respond
to experiences in characteristic
ways”.
• Example Sentences
-Their intelligence, friendly disposition,
and "smiling" faces make dolphins popular
in large aquariums and with divers.
A disposition is a habit,
a preparation, a state of
readiness,
or a tendency to act in a
specified way.
In Bourdieu's theory of fields, dispositions are the natural tendencies
of each individual to take on a certain position in any field. There is no
strict determinism through one's dispositions.
In fact, the habitus is the choice of
positions according to one's
dispositions. However, in
retrospect a space of possible
can always be observed.
Factors affecting Dispositions~~
1. Hereditary OR Dispositional attribution
2.Hereditary versus Personal
Experiences [Nature versus nurture]
3.Adaptive expertise
4.Habitus (sociology)
1.Heriditary or Dispositional attribution is the
explanation of individual behavior as a result caused
by internal characteristics that reside within the
individual, as opposed to outside (situational)
influences that stem from the environment or culture
in which that individual is found.
Dispositionalism is the general tendency to
prefer dispositional attribution rather
than situational attribution.
For example, dispositional optimism
is a tendency that applies generally
across situations, but situational
optimism is having hope and expecting
a good outcome in a specific situation.
2.Heriditary versus Personal Experiences
[Nature versus nurture]:
The nature versus nurture debate
concerns the relative importance of an
individual's innate qualities ("nature," i.e.
nativism, or innatism) versus personal
experiences ("nurture," i.e. empiricism or
behaviorism) in determining or causing
individual differences in physical and
behavioral traits.
3.Adaptive expertise is a broad construct
that encompasses a range of cognitive,
motivational, and personality-related
components, as well as habits of mind and
dispositions.
4.Habitus is the set of socially learnt
dispositions, skills and ways of acting, that
are often taken for granted, and which are
acquired through the activities and
experiences of everyday life.
Habitus is a complex concept, but in its
simplest usage could be understood as a
structure of the mind
characterized by a set of acquired
schemata, sensibilities, dispositions
and taste.
The particular contents of the habitus
are the result of the objectification of
social structure at the level of
individual subjectivity. Hence, the
habitus is, by definition, isomorphic with
the structural conditions in which it
emerged.
Dispositions
-Are attitudes.
-Tendencies to respond in a
particular way.
-Can be negative as well as positive.
-Are different from skills and
knowledge.
-Have long term effects on
life long learning.
Are different to genetic
“predispositions” (temperament).
Are acquired early and are part of a
child’s motivation to explore their
world.
Are acquired from and affected by
interactive experiences with the
environment, significant adults and
peers.
Can be fostered, learned and
taught.
How do we grow dispositions?
Are acquired from and affected by interactive
experiences with the environment, significant
adults and peers.
Linked to secure attachments and wellbeing.
Dispositions grow within relationships.
The responses that children get reinforce
the growth of their dispositions.
Sometimes adults need to grow their own
dispositions as well.
Learning in the Early Years
Children are active learners from birth.
They learn through play
and through positive &
supportive interactions
with others.
Intelligence is not fixed at birth.
Our brain changes as a result
of our experiences.
Basic Psychological Components Logically Forms
Dispositions By 3 Elements:
1. Sensitivity: The perception of the
appropriateness of a particular behavior;
2. Inclination: The felt impetus
toward a behavior;
3. Ability: The basic capacity to
follow through the behavior.
Practically Formation Of Dispositions:
ID----EGO-----SUPEREGO…..
EXAMPLE :
Divisions Of Dispositions
Example:
How many types of Dispositions?????
Infinite Types Of Dispositions……………
So what are some dispositions?
What is the goal to achieve from
Disposition?
TO Understand Man As A Whole!
So why LEARNING Dispositions?
To reach till exact SIMILIMUM.
Use of Dispositions In Case- Taking
State of Dispositions-----State Similimum
Basic Dispositions-----Constitutional
Similimum
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