His education in valuing people of all different backgrounds began with his rural Arkansas childhood. “I want it to be a transformational experience-getting to know people, encouraging them, really valuing people.” But the most important thing he does is simply assist students.Ĭoming to CES “is not a transactional experience,” he says.
Every day, he offers students help with job and internship searches, mock interviews, cover letters and graduate school applications. For Quantrell Willis, the Career and Employment Services liaison to the College of Arts & Sciences, helping hands aren’t limited to Wednesdays. Meanings drawn from the study have implications for educators, parents, coaches, students, and anyone aspiring toward excellence.The sandwich board outside Career and Employment Services proclaims “Walk-in Wednesday”-a familiar sight to any K-State student. Learnings about masterly learning and the farther reaches of human learning are indicated. Principles are distilled and themes are synthesized-in particular, the concept resilient presence. There are four interconnected research questions: (a) how did Waitzkin experience and interpret his learning and performance journey in the pursuit of excellence? (b) what principles and meanings has Waitzkin derived from this journey? (c) how can these principles and meanings be extended and developed? and (d) how can masterly learning be cultivated? The study unravels the interconnected threads of Waitzkin’s meta-learning tapestry. The research method is heuristic, anchored in Waitzkin’s experience and theorizing, and interpreted through the lens of the researcher and his own immersion in the phenomenon of seeking to excel. The approach is qualitative, discursive, and transdisciplinary-driven by the inquiry rather than disciplinary agendas. The study carries forward research in the learning sciences in the fields of expertise and expert performance, and achievement motivation. In particular, the key role of intuition in masterly performance is examined. Waitzkin’s masterly achievements in two disparate domains-a decidedly rare phenomenon-raise many questions, explored in this research, about the mindset (or self-theories) and strategies (or processes) most conducive to high-level learning, including learning to learn. The main focus of the inquiry, and an exemplar of this growing tip, is Josh Waitzkin, who achieved expertise or even mastery in both chess, a mental art, and Tai Chi Chuan, a martial art. Self-actualization (in Maslow’s sense) rather than self-aggrandizement is the point of the study. In the spirit of Abraham Maslow and other scholars exploring “the farther reaches of human nature,” the research is based on the premise that individuals and society can benefit enormously from studying the growing tip of humankind, and not just the mediocre and pathological.
THE FARTHER REACHES OF HUMAN LEARNING: AN INTERPRETATIVE STUDY OF MASTERY Abstract This study investigates masterly learning, artistry in learning, and learning to learn. An attempt is made by the researcher to study and understand their lives and to document their strengths in adapting to their changed status and living positively with HIV/AIDS. It also takes note on the response of the affected HIV positive widows to their own infection. The present paper is a case study that explores the experiences of a persons infected with HIV/AIDS, with their immediate family members, healthcare system, work place and religion and other social and institutional domains. Generally women are at a greater risk of heterosexual transmission of HIV and biologically twice more likely to become infected through unprotected heterosexual intercourse than men they are also often blamed by their parents and in-laws for infecting their husbands, or for not controlling their partners urges to have sex with other women. Women with HIV or AIDS are sometimes mistakenly perceived to be the main transmitters of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). This has significant ramifications on women especially since they are always more than often innocent victim infected by their husbands who eventually die within months of their being diagnosed as HIV-positive. The stigma and discrimination towards persons living with HIV/AIDS not only affect them, their families but also prevent them from accessing treatment that is very important for their survival. HIV/AIDS continues to be a massive development challenge for humanity as it deprives families, communities and entire nations of their young and most productive people.
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