The Global-personal Act
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https://doi.org/10.31207/colloquia.v4i0.46Keywords:
cognition, development, adolescense, global-personal actAbstract
Since Piaget proposed formal operations as the cognitive act that starts at the end of childhood and matures in adolescence, the cognitive act in adolescents has gradually broken away from the complexity involved in knowing and acting during adolescence. Thus, cognition remains as a technical act and this entails a reduction of what knowing really means during adolescence. We intend to propose an alternative term to such of formal operations, ‘global-personal act’, an act which best represents the actions of adolescents and, therefore, leads to an understanding of adolescent cognition in its true highly existentialist and personal context. The global-personal act certainly is a cognitive act but it is more than that, due to the fact that it places adolescent cognition within the vital complexity experienced by teenagers. Using this term instead of formal operations guarantees not separating knowing from acting and, further, it allows understanding adolescent vital context. In this article, in order to characterize the global-personal act, we study adolescent cognitive act through what neuroscience refers to as simulation. By studying simulation, we will see that it is not possible to break cognition away from the complexity of living and from the whole set of human dimensions. Afterwards, we discover the personal character of adolescent acting, which was learned in childhood. All this allows us to propose a formulation of global-personal act as the act that manifests the fullness of authorship, since it implies a deliberate action and personal adhesion to the action, as it is desired in itself. The consequence of this is unrestricted growth. The term ‘personal’ makes special reference to childhood, and the term ‘global’ refers to adolescence, but without being exclusive to each period.
Neuroscience discoveries will dialogue with Philosophy and Psychology. These three disciplines will interact in the article in order to characterize the term proposed: global-personal act, where cognition is a component thereof. In the Philosophical level, we essentially lay basis on the contributions made by Aristotle and Leonardo Polo. In the psychological level we mainly look upon Erikson, with some references to Viktor Frankl and Carl Rogers. On the Neuroscience level, it is not possible to take hand of identified lines of thought, but of most recent investigations.
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