Bandura’s Theory and the Glass Castle
Introduction –The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- About the book:
- 2005 memoir of Jeannette Walls (Walls, 2006)
- The story of the family who chooses to live like homeless
- The Walls family members consist of parents Rex and Rosy walls, their three daughters: Lori Walls, Maureen and Jeannette wall and a son Brian Walls (Walls, 2006)
- The book is divided into 5 parts
- Depicted by the places the family used to live in
- The Glass Castle—Metaphor for the dream house which family plans to build one day
- Bandura’s Theory: Social Learning Theory
- Self is a product of the interaction between
- Cognition
- Behavior
- Environment
- Observation Learning: Learning occurs by observation other’s behavior (Lehman, 2018, p. 59)
- Jeannette Walls and Social Learning Theory
- Jeannette learned by observing the behaviors of her family
- Living as nomads and learning from the environment
- Choose to live a different life once grown up
- Describe her parents with affection but tend to lie
- Social standing
- Jeannette Walls and Self Observation
- Self-Observation:
- Observing oneself and behavior to understand the performance (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 46)
- Jeannette self-observation
- The early life of Jeannette
- An accident in the kitchen
- Her father’s way of making her brother create a drama
- Breaking into the hospital by taking Jeannette away
- Other life incidents
- Judgment and Character of Jeannette
- Judgment is
- Comparing yourself and standards
- Standards for oneself and other’s expectations (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 46)
- Jeannette tend to pretend about her family
- Lie about their status and their work because of the standards regarding a normal family
- Self-Response and Jeannette
- Self-Response is making and evaluating decisions
- Based on consequences and standards (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 46)
- Decided to make her life better
- Move out of her family
- Tried to motivate her family to be in a better state
- Family, Self-Efficacy, and Jeannette
- Self is socially constructed through experience with the environment (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 49)
- Family—1st element of self-efficacy and the interaction with the environment (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 50)
- Different family structures creation of social references (Lehman & Ainbinder, 2018, p. 50)
- Examples from the life of Jeannette
- How family has impacted self-efficacy of Jeannette
- Alcoholic Father
- Being homeless
- Wandering and sleeping around at any place
- Naming everything they do as an adventure
- Conclusion- Social Learning and Jeannette
- Learn from other people via observation and imitation
- Jeannette learned from
- Her family
- The way of their living
- Unconventional childhood in the name of adventure
- Learning to move out the dysfunctional and poor environment
References
Lehman, M., & Ainbinder, D. (2018). Bandura’s social-cognitive learning theory. In D. Ainbinder & S. Unger (Eds.), Dialogues of self and society level 100 (4th ed., pp.39-54). Boca Raton, FL: Lynn University.
Lehman, M. (2018). Observational learning. In D. Ainbinder & S. Unger (Eds.), Dialogues of self and society level 100 (4th ed., pp. 56-67). Boca Raton, FL: Lynn University.
Walls, J. (2006). The Glass Castle: A Memoir. Simon & Schuster. Retrieved from https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=BTMknk-qvacC