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In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern LifeBOOK DETAILAmazon Business : For business-only pricing, quantity discounts and FREE Shipping. Register a freebusiness account Paperback: 396 pages Publisher: Harvard University Press; 44593rd edition (July 21, 1998)Language: English ISBN-10: 0674445880 ISBN-13: 978-0674445888 Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2inches Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)Step By Step To Download Or Read Online1. Click Button "DOWNLOAD" Or "READ ONLINE"2. Sign Up To Acces "In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life"3. Choose the book you like when you register4. You can also cancel your membership if you are bored5. Enjoy and Happy Reading
Book DescriptionIf contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modernlife as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher, RobertKegan guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demandsand our mental capacities, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we so often do,in over our heads. In this dazzling intellectual tour, he completely reintroduces us to thepsychological landscape of our private and public lives. A decade ago in The Evolving Self,Kegan presented a dynamic view of the development of human consciousness. Here he appliesthis widely acclaimed theory to the mental complexity of adulthood. As parents and partners,employees and bosses, citizens and leaders, we constantly confront a bewildering array ofexpectations, prescriptions, claims, and demands, as well as an equally confusing assortment ofexpert opinions that tell us what each of these roles entails. Surveying the disparate expert“literatures,” which normally take no account of each other, Kegan brings them together to reveal,for the first time, what these many demands have in common. Our frequent frustration in trying tomeet these complex and often conflicting claims results, he shows us, from a mismatch betweenthe way we ordinarily know the world and the way we are unwittingly expected to understand it.In Over Our Heads provides us entirely fresh perspectives on a number of culturalcontroversies―the “abstinence vs. safe sex” debate, the diversity movement, communicationacross genders, the meaning of postmodernism. What emerges in these pages is a theory ofevolving ways of knowing that allows us to view adult development much as we view childdevelopment, as an open-ended process born of the dynamic interaction of cultural demands andemerging mental capabilities. If our culture is to be a good “school,” as Kegan suggests, it mustoffer, along with a challenging curriculum, the guidance and support that we clearly need tomaster this course―a need that this lucid and richly argued book begins to meet.
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