#ppct

My first year in college was not easy. 

It really got me lutang extensively confused and drained. To name a few, there was the stress of adjusting to the new environment, the new systems, and meeting new friends. This really took a toll on me as I tried to figure out my place as a part of this context and how to work around it. I spent a lot of time thinking about this but eventually, I learned in my SocSci11 Class that this is normal and it’s okay to feel this way. The subject gave me a sense of navigating through my thoughts by understanding myself. It’s important to note that there are multiple factors that shape who we are and how we think now. 

The PPCT Model

First of all, I did not realize that there were so many technical aspects to take into consideration while trying to understand the self. It was interesting to have learned that there was a framework to aid the process of understanding yourself because I’ve always felt really lost trying to figure myself out. Urie Bronfenbrenner is the proponent of the framework mentioned called the PPCT Model or the Process-Person-Context-Time Model. One of the important points I’ve taken with me from this topic is understanding the person through demand, resource, and force. This falls under the Person aspect. These were presented as things we can observe from people, but that also means we can be observed in that way as well. This got me to reevaluate myself using these three points and it actually worked really well in helping understand myself. 

Developing in the Globalizing World

Person.

Growth.

Those two words seem so simple yet when dug into further, are complex concepts on their own. The person. Who she or he is is the summation of all his or her experiences, influences, genes, and social place in different parts of time as time goes on. To see how she or he came to be, one must analyse his or her development. How beautiful as an art everything is when we know about it, him or her.

For our first week till Monday just this week, our class was lectured about Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Theory of Human Development. In saying that, we learned about how the environment affects the individual in many way and with that, we are able to categorize his studies to a model, the PPCT (Process, Person, Context, and Time) model.

Let’s first talk about PROCESS. What is Process? Process talk about even the little things in life can actually affect you. And because we interact with objects and people daily, we can say that a person is still being processed or developed.

Next, we have PERSON. Person is where we talk about you as a person. The Person is categorized into 3 types which is Demand, Resource, and Force. Demand is your physical self like your gender, age, and race. Resource talks about your mental, emotional, social, and material skills. Lastly, Force talks about your temperament, drive, and motivation.

The thirst category is the CONTEXT. This is probably the most common as you probably heard about the environmental systems. The environmental systems consist of microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, and macrosystem. Microsystem refers to the individuals who are part of your life and could potential affect you as an individual like your family, friends, and others who are in your inner circle. Mesosystem then talks about the relationships of those in your microsystem like for example my friend meeting my parents. Exosystem then talks about people or certain groups that can indirectly affect you like for example, the neighbors are too loud with their music so I wasn’t able to study for my test the next day. Lastly, Macrosystem is the ideologies, culture, and sub cultures that could affect you. For example, the filipino culture is to say “ po” or “ opo” to elderlies since you are raised in that kind of culture, you have the tendency to say “ po” or “ opo” to the elderly.

Lastly, we have the TIME. Time can affect you in many ways without you even knowing and just like person, time has two types; Microtime and Macrotime. Microtime talks about what happened to you recently and how it affected you like for example, I got my report card recently and I failed in some of my classes so my parents will scold me which in turn would make me want to study even harder, making me studious. Macrotime are events that happened a long time ago but can still affect you till now like for example, the Spanish Colonization. In the Spanish Colonization, we learn to adopt some of their words and use it in our own Filipino language.

Você sabe quem começou com o cinema clássico de hoje?

I believe I mentioned once before that I've been coming up with a lot of poetry challenges and experiments lately. I've been building up a list of prompts that give specific methods or constraints to try to inspire creativity and produce and interesting result. I think it's important not to exercise too much control in poetry, at least some of the time. (This is coming from a teenager with no formal training and virtually no real experience in the field, so take it as you will)

These are largely inspired by Uut's Projects (if you can't tell that he is my biggest influence, then you haven't been to his blog) and  Charles Bernstein's list of his experiments. I don't know how original these experiments of mine are, but I hope that at least someone enjoys them. (and maybe submits something?)

The reason I bring this up is that my most recent poem was made using one of these experiments. I'll be posting the rest in the order I do them, as well as keeping a list on my blog when I get around to adding it.

#13-Wiki Walks-- Go to a random page on wikipedia (there's a random page button on the side) and use the idea of that page for a title. Then, click any link on that page, and click any link on that page. Use the resulting page as inspiration for a line/a couple of lines based on that page. Repeat until satisfied. The goal of this is to emulate a wiki walk (warning: tv tropes) which in a way is a sort of digital stream of consciousness. The skipping is to add the jarring juxtaposition you get when you look at a wiki walk or train of thought without looking at all the steps.