scholarly journals Foundations of a Wisdom-Cultivating Pedagogy: Developing Systems Thinking across the University Disciplines

Philosophies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Mark Bracher
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Cognitive Functions ◽  
Causal Analysis ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Core ◽  
Global Problems ◽  
Wise Decision ◽  
The University

Efforts to educate for wisdom are sorely needed in order to solve humanity’s most pressing problems, as explained by philosopher Nicholas Maxwell and psychologist Robert Sternberg, among others. This paper explains that the handful of wisdom pedagogies that have been put forward to date, however, are inadequate for developing the sort of wisdom that can solve our major problems, because they fail to identify and target for development four cognitive functions necessary for wise decision-making. These functions are causal analysis, prospection, social cognition, and metacognition. I show how adequately performing these cognitive functions, which constitute the core of systems thinking, is necessary for solving our most serious global problems, as various systems-thinking experts have also argued. Drawing on recent research on learning and the development of expertise, I explain how the capabilities to perform these functions can be developed by pedagogical methods that help students construct more adequate cognitive models of (i) natural, social, and psychological systems of cause and effect and (ii) the cognitive procedures required to comprehend and effectively intervene in these systems. The basic principles for implementing this wisdom/systems-thinking pedagogy across academic disciplines are explained, and examples from different disciplines are provided.

Research on Multi-Sectoral Synergetic Mechanism for Emergent Decision-Making on Critical Incidents

2011 ◽  
Vol 66-68 ◽  
pp. 1001-1005
Author(s):  
Xiao Guang Wang ◽  
Ya Li Xie ◽  
Yuan Fen Wang ◽  
Zhong Hai Zuo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Critical Incidents ◽  
Superposition Principle ◽  
Linear Superposition ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
The Core ◽  
Emergency Decision Making ◽  
Linear Superposition Principle ◽  
Emergency Decision ◽  
Mechanism Innovation

Emergency decision making is the core link and key content of crisis emergent management. The conventional decision-making principle cannot meet the needs of emergent decision-making. Therefore, general linear superposition principle is not applicable any more, and the synergetic principle must be followed in emergent decision-making on critical incidents. Basic principles of making emergent decision and approaches to multi-sectoral synergetic mechanism innovation relating to emergency decision making is presented in the article.

scholarly journals How Wisdom Engages the Possible

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mane Kara-Yakoubian ◽  
Amanda Modesta Rotella ◽  
Anna Dorfman ◽  
Igor Grossmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Psychological Study ◽  
Wise Person ◽  
The Core ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Wise Decision ◽  
Of Greece

Wisdom has been a central theme in the philosophical inquiry of the human experience for centuries, with the earliest written teachings dating back to the ancient Egyptian vizier, Ptahhotep 25-24 century BCE. The virtue of wisdom has been attributed to the great deities of various cultures and mythologies (e.g., Anahit of Armenia, Athena of Greece), and a quality humankind is encouraged to embody millennia later. In more recent decades, psychological scientists have begun to study the concept of wisdom, exploring characteristics of a wise person as well as meta-cognitive processes and moral aspirations involved in wise decision making. At the core of wisdom is the recognition and acceptance that for any given issue there are different possible perspectives, interests, contexts, and outcomes, as well as the willingness to consider and take into account these different possibilities when working through the issue. This chapter reviews the psychological study of wisdom, with a focus on the conceptual and empirical construct of wisdom as it relates to the possible.

scholarly journals Decision Making Using Multicriteria Analysis: A Case Study of Decision Modeling Career in Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioannis Dimitrakopoulos ◽  
Kostas Karamanis
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multicriteria Analysis ◽  
Multicriteria Decision Making ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Multicriteria Method ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Cost ◽  
The University

The aim of this paper is to offer an applicable evaluation framework relating to the right choice of one’s profession via his/her studies. The first part of the paper consists of the basic principles of Multicriteria Decision Making. To begin with, the paper initially focuses on the Macbeth Method. This helps to provide a perspective for procedural types of decisions in which various qualitative and quantitative aspects are incorporated. In the second part of the paper, the above-mentioned multicriteria method is applied to a “real-world” case concerning a specific case of a student, Eva. For this specific study, it is concluded that the factors of greatest importance that lead to choosing the University Eva finally chose, were four: the cost of undergraduate studies, the reputation-status of the University, its logistics and infrastructure and its interconnections with other Universities and other Academic Institutions.

Evaluation of the Academic Setting in Spain 1This study was financed by the University of Oviedo.

1995 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Fernández ◽  
Miguel A. Mateo ◽  
José Muñiz
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Climate ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Academic Setting ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Evaluation Questionnaire ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University

The conditions are investigated in which Spanish university teachers carry out their teaching and research functions. 655 teachers from the University of Oviedo took part in this study by completing the Academic Setting Evaluation Questionnaire (ASEQ). Of the three dimensions assessed in the ASEQ, Satisfaction received the lowest ratings, Social Climate was rated higher, and Relations with students was rated the highest. These results are similar to those found in two studies carried out in the academic years 1986/87 and 1989/90. Their relevance for higher education is twofold because these data can be used as a complement of those obtained by means of students' opinions, and the crossing of both types of data can facilitate decision making in order to improve the quality of the work (teaching and research) of the university institutions.

Methodology of ECG Interpretation in the Padova Program

1990 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 386-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Degani ◽  
G. Bortolan
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Fuzzy Set ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Main Aspect ◽  
Measurement Evaluation ◽  
Possibility Distributions ◽  
Linguistic Decision Making ◽  
The University ◽  
Ecg Interpretation

AbstractThe main lines ofthe program designed for the interpretation of ECGs, developed in Padova by LADSEB-CNR with the cooperation of the Medical School of the University of Padova are described. In particular, the strategies used for (i) morphology recognition, (ii) measurement evaluation, and (iii) linguistic decision making are illustrated. The main aspect which discerns this program in comparison with other approaches to computerized electrocardiography is its ability of managing the imprecision in both the measurements and the medical knowledge through the use of fuzzy-set methodologies. So-called possibility distributions are used to represent ill-defined parameters as well as threshold limits for diagnostic criteria. In this way, smooth conclusions are derived when the evidence does not support a crisp decision. The influence of the CSE project on the evolution of the Padova program is illustrated.

ISSUES OF DESIGN OF INFORMAL LEARNING SPACES IN THE UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-193
Author(s):  
Dmytrash O ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Informal Learning ◽  
General Characteristic ◽  
Learning Space ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Educational Design ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Educational Spaces ◽  
Flexible Planning ◽  
State Of Research ◽  
The University

The article presents an overview and analysis of the state of research in the field of design and exploitation of modern educational spaces in universities around the world, namely areas with flexible planning, called informal learning space. According to the research conducted, the general characteristic and classification were developed and the basic principles of designing this space were revealed. The study identified several problems that arise during its exploitation, which should be taken into account in the designing process. There is described the experience of educational design of interuniversity cultural centres with the application of the developed theoretical bases of designing of informal educational space.

On the Publishing Infrastructure of the University and its Construction Principles

2010 ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
Tatyana F. Berestova ◽  
Vera R. Abramovskih
Keyword(s):  
Research Library ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
History Of ◽  
Publishing Infrastructure ◽  
Distribution Sector ◽  
The University

The basic principles of publishing activities in universities and their interrelation, all stages of redaction, the problems each of them, and ways to solve them. The activities of the distribution sector of publishing in the structure of the Research Library of Chelyabinsk State Academy of Culture and Arts and the history of its creation are described.

The promise of nanomedicine research with Sourav Bhattacharjee

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sourav Bhattacharjee
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principles ◽  
University College ◽  
The University

In this Expert Perspective video, Sourav Bhattacharjee of the University College Dublin discusses the hopes and challenges in the field of nanomedicine research, overviewing the basic principles of nanomedicine and the progress made so far. Sourav also summarises his work in nanomedicine, providing guidance and advice to new researchers in this field.

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