Generative Theory
Format Type
Plenary
Format Type
Paper
Start Date
14-1-2021 1:30 PM
End Date
14-1-2021 1:50 PM
Abstract
How do we create the good person? How do we create the good society? These are the perennial questions, Maslow’s “big questions”, that are immediately implicit in any exploration into the nature of human potential. Therefore, these questions remain forever embedded in any qualitative research endeavor concerning the full actualization of human potential, or, barriers to its actualization. Additionally, these questions are at their core generative. The former seeks the realization of capacity and/or ways to build upon that capacity — the actualization of human potential. The latter seeks sustainability a viability that is in-and-of-itself self-sustaining and generative. The generative reality of these questions, that capacity coupled with sustainability yields potential, remains active whether we openly honor their presence through mindfulness (awareness, insight and discernment) and an enduring sense of hope (the will to believe), or leave it hidden in some subterranean stream of unconsciousness. Like the nucleus of an atom, generativity is the absolute centrality that holds not only the search for human potential but also the reality of human potential together. This work, Generative Theory, purposes itself within the centrality of these “big questions”. In its simplest definition Generative Theory purposes itself with holistic explorations into natures of human potential. This paper will discuss the overarching importance of qualitatively uncovering a generative approach towards revealing these potentials by way of articulating a philosophy that will affirm it, the principles that will sustain it, and the practices that will extend it. Generativity,for clarification, concerns itself with thriving.
Keywords
Generativity, Human Potential
Generative Theory
How do we create the good person? How do we create the good society? These are the perennial questions, Maslow’s “big questions”, that are immediately implicit in any exploration into the nature of human potential. Therefore, these questions remain forever embedded in any qualitative research endeavor concerning the full actualization of human potential, or, barriers to its actualization. Additionally, these questions are at their core generative. The former seeks the realization of capacity and/or ways to build upon that capacity — the actualization of human potential. The latter seeks sustainability a viability that is in-and-of-itself self-sustaining and generative. The generative reality of these questions, that capacity coupled with sustainability yields potential, remains active whether we openly honor their presence through mindfulness (awareness, insight and discernment) and an enduring sense of hope (the will to believe), or leave it hidden in some subterranean stream of unconsciousness. Like the nucleus of an atom, generativity is the absolute centrality that holds not only the search for human potential but also the reality of human potential together. This work, Generative Theory, purposes itself within the centrality of these “big questions”. In its simplest definition Generative Theory purposes itself with holistic explorations into natures of human potential. This paper will discuss the overarching importance of qualitatively uncovering a generative approach towards revealing these potentials by way of articulating a philosophy that will affirm it, the principles that will sustain it, and the practices that will extend it. Generativity,for clarification, concerns itself with thriving.
Comments
I do have a full unpublished paper written.