Entercation – New Content of this Concept

Entercation – New Content of this Concept

Entercation stands for entertaining education.

It may be possibly considered identical to a traditional concept „edutainment“. It may sound similar, but entercation is something obviously different.

At first, let´s speak about edutainment. Then, let´s show differences of the entercation, its features and significance.

You can find an extensive entry about edutainment on English Wikipedia. It means educational entertainment. Its roots reach even to Jesus Christ, to the Bible. In modern history, it´s mentioned and used by Walt Disney Company, National Geographic Society etc. It means primarily an entertainment – in form and shape. E. g. film, fable, story, computer game etc. The educational feature of such an education is secondary, developing and refining in meaning. It´s logical according to English grammar rules. If there is an abbreviation or acronym consisting of two parts, the second one is typically primary and the first one is secondary.

There are many kinds of entertainment; some of them are educational furthermore.

In case of entercation, it´s contrary. This entertaining education is an education primarily, entertainment secondarily.

Remark: You could have googled the word entercation before this text originated. However, it was always in the very similar sense like edutainment. I hereby define its significantly new content.

In history, many parts of different educations were witty, attractive, full of fun. The entercation, however, means a situation, when the extent of entertainment exceeds a certain limit. Its form and shape are educational – there are a teacher (trainer, coach, advisor, mentor etc.) and pupils (students, trainees, participants of a course, coached people etc.). There is a classroom or mental training room, blackboard or flipchart, data projector, interactive board, computers etc. There is testing of results (skills, abilities, habits, knowledge) at the end of educational units or stages.

But in this case of education, the entertaining feature overgrows all the educational process. It´s based of steady feeling of naturalness, casualness and spontaneity on the side of taught individuals.

Those feelings stem from using of psychomathematical formulas or psychoformulas. Psychoformulas create an complex system of pieces of know-how based on involving many distant scientific disciplines; e. g. maths, physics, psychology, pedagogy, didactics, medicine (esp. neurophysiology), philology, linguistic, economy, cybernetics, a bit even history, geography, political science, chemistry... It´s difficult for the author of psychoformulas to invent them, because he must be graduated (at least informally) in all these disciplines at the same time. However, the use of psychoformulas is easy for the students or trainees. It´s analogical to the most modern smartphones. Their invention is matter of the best creative brains, their use is almost for everybody.

The entercation uses to its benefits, to its naturalness, casualness and spontaneity especially

the psychoformula of opposing subconscious,

the psychoformula of professional concentration,

the psychoformula of psychical relativity theory,

the psychoformula of self-realization and association (= of human EGO),

and the psychoformula of emotion management.

There are dozens of other, minor psychoformulas, but these five ones are the most striking not only as an attribute of entercation but as a complex basis of all the soft skills and personal development.

Psychoformulas related to entercation are of the Czech origin, invented by David Gruber, published and made famous solely by him since the middle of 80s, popularized in more than 100 of his books, e-books, audio books and video books, in many magazine articles, radio and TV performances and more than 1 000 courses and trainings in area of soft skills and personal development.