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Kegan's Levels of Cognitive Complexity

by: Paul Rosenberg

Sat Mar 28, 2009 at 09:48

Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan has developed a theoretical framework for integrating the developmental theories of Jean Piaget and later developmental psychologists, such as Lawrence Kohlberg and Erik Erikson. Kegan argues that at each developmental stage, what was the background/context/subject of consciousness in the previous stage now becomes foreground/content/object. The result is the table below:

Kegan's Subject/Object Schema of Cognitive Development
Stage We Are:
Subject
(structure of knowing) We Have:
Object
(content of knowing) Underlying Structure
1 Perceptions

SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS

Impulses Movement

Sensation
2 Concrete

POINT OF VIEW

Enduring Dispositions Perceptions

SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS

Impulses
3
Traditionalism Abstractions

MUTUALITY/
INTERPERSONALISM
Relationship

Inner states Concrete

POINT OF VIEW

Enduring Dispositions
Needs, Peferences
4
Modernism Abstract Systems
Ideology

INSTITUTION
Relationship-Regulating Forms

Self-authorship Abstractions

MUTUALITY/
INTERPERSONALISM
Relationship

Inner states
Subjectivity
Self-consciousness
5
Post-
Modernism Dialectical

INTER-
INSTITUTIONAL

Self-transformation Abstract Systems
Ideology

INSTITUTION
Relationship-Regulating Forms

Self-authorship
Self-regulation
Self-formation

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