Be Creating

The Wonder Weeks Hetty van de Rijt ,  Frans Plooij Perceptual Control Theory (PCT) purports that we are made up of a hierarchy of negative feedback loops.  The higher levels are made up of differing combinations of lower levels. Over time this hierarchy becomes more and more complex. As an educator I have always been fascinated by the hierarchy and in particular how it is formed and how it relates to learning. One of the best explanations of the formation of the hierarchy comes from Hetty van de Rijt, and Frans Plooij, in their book The Wonder Weeks.  Because I used the word hierarchy I want to specify that I’m meaning a complex dynamic network much like the images you have seen depicting neural networks or branching rather than a ladder.  Although we are born with part of the hierarchy in place most of it grows as we grow.  Rijt and Plooij Dutch researchers, conducted studies on when we first acquire perception on each level.  Their research ...