Comments on: BYU Ed Department’s Jungian Scholar

By: Sleepingheidi

Sleepingheidi — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 19:39:00 +0000

In reply to Thejeffreyfamily. The social manipulation in The Giver is evident. What did I miss in Goose Girl and Princess Academy? Not usually a reader of much fiction, I rather enjoyed Goose Girl.

By: Thejeffreyfamily

Thejeffreyfamily — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:09:00 +0000

I have homeschooled my kids and then put them back in school 2 different times. When I homeschooled them I tried to teach them about and read books with them about social manipulation (Goose Girl, Princess Academy, The Giver, etc.). As a parent that is very concerned about the educational/social manipulations that happen in some schools this information frigthens me but I have to remind myself and my children that we have prepared ourselves for this and hopefully my children will remember the things that I taught them so that they can identify the wrong information and talk with me about it. I guess it’s the same feeling we get when a huge earthquake hits and we hope that we’ve prepared our emergency supplies well enough!

By: Marjohna

Marjohna — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:10:00 +0000

I studied and rejected all of these ideas when I was in school. In fact when I was assigned to write a paper about these major psychologists I approached the subject from the perspective of rejection on the grounds of their total antithesis in relation to true eternal principles. My teacher chastised me, but I had learned to work the system of general hoop-jumping well enough to meet my goals of passing the class, while still maintaining intellectual integrity, graduating and moving on to a credentialed position in the world where I might be able to combat such ideas and their destructive effect upon children. I felt sure that a gospel-trained community would also immediately reject such ideas and methods once they were revealed as well as the system of which they are the heart. Another instructor that was engaged in training teachers in how to use behaviorist theory to manipulate the children in their classrooms rather than respect them as free, intelligent agents, was one day demonstrating some way to use sign language and signed “You drive me crazy” at me, thinking that I did not pick up on what he was saying. I signed back “You were there a long time ago.” but he didn’t pick up on it. I guess the long and short of the story is that those who embraced those ideas have the positions of honor and prosperity in the community, and I do not make a living in my field.