Kyle Green Lesson for Life
Luke Dendis
This exhibit is by Luke, an adolescent math education major! Luke has been an excellent addition to our Lessons for Life class this semester, always bringing a positive attitude and being a great team player. Luke's favorite type of math is Calculus 3, which he described as cool. If you ever need help with calc homework, you know who to contact. Luke was interested in working on a project based on Dr. Green's talk because he thought the visual component could be easy to translate. Feel free to read his attached blurb down below:
"This animation is a graph explaining Kyle Green's research on martial arts. Kyle Green used an ethnographic study to understand how people orient themselves in new social circles. The study found that, over time, the social group helps an individual form hermeneutic hooks that collectively construct a narrative explaining the motive for their participation in the group. The more hermeneutic hooks an individual makes, the greater their chances of continuing participation in the group. This graph shows the individual, in the present, marked by the orange vertical y-axis, moving through time along the dotted blue x-axis (labeled time). The individual in the present starts at t=0, with no hermeneutic hooks and no future motivation to remain in the social circle. As time passes, t=1 moves towards the present; the group helps the individual form their first green hermeneutic hook, connected to t=0. This causes the red vector (future motivation) to grow into the future. As more time passes, the individual gets another hook into the past, even before they joined the social circle (t=0). Eventually, the group helps form hermetic hooks into the future as well, creating a narrative arc that continues to strengthen the future motivation. The overall pattern shows that, over time, the group helps the individual form hermeneutic hooks to various points, which increases their future motivation and likelihood of participating in the group."
