If contemporary culture were a school with all the responsibilities and expectations meted out by modern life, would anyone graduate? In the spirit of a sympathetic teacher. Robert Kegan. guides us through this tricky curriculum, assessing the fit between its complex demands and our mental capacities, and showing what happens when we find ourselves, as we often do, in over our heads. He introduces us to the psychological landscape of our private and public lives.

The Evolving Self was written a decade ago by Kegan. He applies the theory to the mental complexity of adulthood. As parents and partners, employees and bosses, citizens and leaders, we constantly confront a variety of expectations, prescriptions, claims, and demands, as well as an equally confusing assortment of expert opinions that tell us what each of these roles entails. For the first time, Kegan brings the disparate expert literatures together to reveal what these many demands have in common. He shows us from a mismatch between the way we normally know the world and the way we are expected to understand it, because of our frequent frustration in trying to meet these complex and often conflicting claims results.

We are in over our heads. It gives us fresh perspectives on a number of cultural issues. A theory of evolving ways of knowing that allows us to view adult development as an open-ended process born of the dynamic interaction of cultural demands and emerging mental capabilities emerges in these pages. As Kegan suggests, if our culture is to be a good school, it must offer, along with a challenging curriculum, the guidance and support that we clearly need to master this course.

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