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Dimond, Anthony James. "Systems thinking in technical change : an analogical modelling approach." Thesis, City University London, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.276617.
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Deltner, Johan. "Varaktig förgänglighet : En undersökning av kreativitet inom ramen för ett historiskt tänkande kring kontinuitet och förändring." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-44286.
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Creative thinking is a popular and ambiguous ability but so far we have limited knowledge about how creativity work within history education. The purpose of this study was therefore to investigate how individual creativity and a historical thinking with a focus on continuity and change relate to each other within history education. Data was collected with the help of an authentic history assignment and analyzed with qualitative content analysis and statistical correlations. A constructivist framework with a specific focus on the The Geneplore Model of Creativity and Historical thinking was chosen to guide the analysis. Results point to several similarities between creativity and historical thinking on continuity and change, with both concepts focusing on constructing new and meaningful knowledge. Here, the strongest correlation was found between creative thinking and reflections about change through history. The analysis also pointed to cognitive processes with a particularly promising potential to develop both creative and historical thinking, namely divergent thinking with the purpose to generate several alternative answers, and janusian thinking with the purpose to generate contradictory perspectives. Further, the analysis also revealed some differences between creativity and historical thinking on continuity and change. Here, thinking creatively with help of distant analogical thinking was particularly difficult since those conclusions seldom were rooted in historical facts. In fact, many of the creative conclusion identified in this study showed a potential to develop students understanding of the past, but were still in an undeveloped stage. These results indicate a need for a continued critical exploration of creative answers after initially being generated. In sum, the identified similarities and differences between creative and historical thinking on continuity and change demonstrate that creativity could play a role in the development of students historical understanding and points to a promising direction for future research interested in creative comparisons over time.
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Gordon, Adam. "How Can One Decide and Stick to One Creative Idea from Several?" Thesis, Konstfack, IBIS - Institutionen för bild- och slöjdpedagogik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-5636.
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In pursuing my aim to provide a methodical easy to follow ideation to creationprocess didactic instructional tool to be used both for design and art projects, ledme to produce a multimedia film.An A2 poster with 3 5 step tried and tested hybrid methods started action research,acting as a didactic teaching tool and point of reference.Further to an interview with gymnasium (high school) art and storytelling teacher,the defining process began by editing live test case documentation from her finalyear 2013 art and design class. Audio clips from a creative director and teacherinterviews’ along with still picture quotes added valuable process method narration.Practical hands on experience in addition to the gymnasium class usability findings,led to final stage development in the form of a digital mobile application, "id'8." Anend sequence animation illustrates simplified, refined and combined 2 5stepprocesses in action, as I work the id’8 process tool interactively.
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Ratkic´, Adrian. "Dialogseminariets forskningsmiljö." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Yrkeskunnande och teknologi, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3975.
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This study explores the application of the dialogue seminar method within a doctoral programme KTH Advanced Programme in Reflective Practice of the research area of Skill and technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. In order to understand distinctive features of the dialogue seminar method the study starts with a survey of how the method and its spirit were affected by the history of ideas related to the research area, of which many were generated within the intellectual milieu gathered around the Dialogue seminar of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm and cultural journal Dialoger. The dialogue seminar method stands for a well thought out idea about what the link between skills, literature, philosophy, history of ideas, art and science is made up of. This idea is expressed in the way the dialogue is conducted; various topics are explored through associations, digressions and deviations form the subject. This indirect approach to reflection is called analogical thinking in contrast to the thinking based on deduction or induction. Analogical thinking prevails in judgement and action. It is also of great significance in e.g. development projects, in arts, all sorts of problem-solving, and those phases of research that call for inventiveness and imagination. The Dialogue Seminar’s Research Milieu brings up new questions about the possibilities of pursuing scientific or methodological reflection by means of analogical thinking and about the status of classical humanistic readings within the post graduate education.<br>QC 20100629
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Åberg, Sven. "Spelrum : om paradoxer och överenskommelser i musikhögskolelärarens praktik." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4698.
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This dissertation discusses the transfer of practical knowledge as seen in the practises of conservatory teachers at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. It is based on material from three series of dialogue seminars conducted with teachers and students. The aim of the dialogue seminar is to bring a practitioner’s personal style of relating to a profession into a form which makes it possible for the practitioner and others to reflect upon. Using the participants’ texts and the seminar protocols as a starting point the dissertation develops some of the themes which emerged. It is divided into three parts: The first discusses conservatory teachers’ relationship to language. Examples include the teachers’ use of indirect ways to »work around« a problem rather than addressing it directly, the use of metaphors and figures of speech, and the fields of disagreement that surround certain central concepts. These disagreements exist within a »thought-style« shared by practitioners of a profession. The second part develops some of the paradoxes inevitably encountered in practical music making and musical education. Examples include planning-spontaniety, simplicity-complexity, reflection-action, clarity-truth, breadth-depth. It is argued that the way in which practitioners’ handle and relate to such »paradoxical fields« constitute an essential part of mature professional skills. The third part discusses the nature of practical knowledge, especially its relationship to the rules that can be established to help transmit such knowledge. The wittgensteinian image of basic rules, which are followed in a way that can not be described in rules, is contrasted by an image in which the learner gains access to patterns of action which are handled on the basis of the percieved meaning of the actions.<br>QC 20100923
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Machado, Beatriz Barcellos. "A trama e a urdidura - um ensaio sobre educação a partir do encantamento." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8133/tde-16082011-142957/.
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Este trabalho recupera elementos do Sufismo via mística originalmente islâmica , nota- damente da obra de Ibn \'Arabî, e busca inseri-los no contexto da sociedade e do pensa- mento atuais a fim de pensar as primeiras linhas de um modelo pedagógico voltado para a singularidade e a cidadania.<br>The present paper brings back subjects found in Sufism, especially the works of Ibn \'Arabî, and tries to integrate them into the context of present society and contemporary thought, in order to sketch the first lines of a pedagogical model directed towards singularity and citizenship.
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Havemose, Karin. "Konsten att uppfinna hjulet två gånger : om uppfinnandets teknik och estetik." Doctoral thesis, Kungliga Tekniska högskolan, Institutionen för industriell ekonomi och organisation, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-8083.
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“There is no need to reinvent the wheel” – a cliché, often told when you want to come up with something new that in someway can be connected to something that already exist. This study shows the opposite – that inventions emanate from what is given. It can be a detail, a problem in a thing - a wheel - or a situation that catches the inventor’s attention. It is something that seeks a solution or something that generates an idea, a hint or a clue of something new and useful. The art of invention emerges from the ability and skill to broaden the seeing and put thinking, substance and tradition into motion. An old radio dial generates a new ergonomic steering wheel. The connection of memories between a chestnut, a cello and an early morning at a water pump creates three works of art. The epistemology of this study is based on a dialogue between voices from different times and traditions. Some voices are normative examples, drawn from a dialogue between Swedish inventors. The others are those of philosophers from the Age of Enlightenment, fetched from their original writings. Through that dialogue, perspectives and ideas of inventors and classical philosophers meet and are compared. A deeper understanding thus emerges that shows the essence of invention and in fact the essence of all creative work: i) Freedom – in thought and in action ii) Dialogue - to test and try new ideas and things in the ever changing circumstances. iii) Doubt - not taking established fact and assumptions for granted iv) Action – testing and breaking established praxis and rules. The study also illustrates the need for an alternative scientific form and expression concerning studies in the fields of invention, innovation and other practical work. Invention can not be captured or shaped by exact measurements, concepts, definitions or abstract models. It takes place in the borderland between fact and fiction, where technique, aesthetics and philosophy are one working entity. The strive for knowledge is endless and without limits and it is nurtured by wondering, searching and ambiguity. With inspiration from the dialogue seminar method used within KTH Advanced Programme in Reflective Practice – this study point out the actuality and vitality in using the classical philosophical writings, dialogue and analogical thinking as a scientific method within higher education.
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Vowels, Christopher L. "Training an implicit reasoning strategy : engaging specific reasoning processes to enhance knowledge acquisition." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/715.
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Santos, Isabel Pereira dos. "O pensamento analógico e afeto na atribuição de significados em matemática." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/48/48134/tde-28012015-142311/.
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Este trabalho discute o papel do pensamento analógico e da afetividade na atribuição de significados e compreensão de conceitos no processo de ensino e aprendizagem em Matemática sob a perspectiva teórica. O uso de analogia em educação coloca em evidência relações estruturais entre elementos similares de domínios diferentes, enriquecendo o entendimento dos conteúdos abordados. Neste contexto, estudou-se a Heurística e em particular o caráter heurístico da analogia em resolução de problemas, o que releva ainda a relação entre tal forma de raciocínio e o conceito de similaridade em atribuição de significados no universo educacional matemático. Por fim, o presente trabalho teorizou o tema afetividade a partir de três constructos, a saber, crenças, atitudes e emoção, visando auxiliar ações que propiciem apreensão e compreensão dos objetos matemáticos.<br>This research discusses the role of analogical thinking and affectivity on attribution of meaning and understanding of concepts in the teaching/learning process of mathematics from the theoretical perspective. The use of analogy in education evinces structural relations between similar elements of different domains, enriching the understanding of concepts approached in such a situation. In this context, it considers Heuristics and, in particular, heuristic features of analogies on problem solving, which also brings out the relationship between such a reasoning and the concept of similarity in attributing meanings in mathematics education contexts. Eventually, this study theorized the subject affection from three constructs, namely, beliefs, attitudes and emotion in order to support actions that encorage apprehension and understanding of mathematical objects.
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Alsterdal, Lotte. "The Duke of Uncertainty -Aspects of Professional Skill." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industrial Economics and Management, 2001. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-3251.
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<p><i>The Duke of Uncertainty - Aspects of Professional Skill</i>is a dissertation whose title is a literary metaphor designedto draw attention to encounters with unforeseen problems anddilemmas at work.</p><p>The first part of the dissertation presents the skill andtechnology tradition that has developed over the last twentyyears through explorative case studies. These have covered theskills of various occupational groups, such as processoperators in the paper-and-pulp and chemicals industries,managers and systems engineers working on real timeapplications in specialized knowledge intensive firms as wellas doctors and nurses.</p><p>The theoretical perspective is the epistemology of skillfocusing on the phenomenon of tacit knowledge. This has itsroots in Wittgenstein's philosophy of language as developed bythe philosophers Allan Janik and Kjell S. Johannessen.</p><p>The methodological framework develops indirect analogicalthinking which is a prerequisite for knowledge based onexperience, through exemplification.</p><p>The empirical part of the work shows knowledge offamiliarity among members of an occupational group with lowformal training but extensive practical experience, namelyassistant nurses. A comparative analysis is undertaken inrelation to previous case studies in the field of skill andtechnology aimed at occupational groups with high formaleducational qualifications.</p><p>A particular aspect to which attention is drawn is therhythm in work that unites occupational groups regardless ofeducational background. Occupational skill is treated as acapacity developed to find rhythm in action when confrontedwith situations that are hard to handle. The dissertationconsiders aspects that can be tried out in other occupationalarenas and paves the way for identifying phenomena in workinglife that hinder the development of rhythm in work.</p><p>The dissertation contributes to the setting-up ofundergraduate-level training for groups of people who have notpreviously had access to higher education, and aims tointroduce new aspects into the development of analoguethinking.</p><p><b>Key words</b>: practical versus theoretical knowledge, skillof epistemology, tacit knowledge, comparative case study,literary metaphor, analogical thinking, indirect method,occupational training.</p>
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Berglund, Johan. "Formalisering och yrkeskunnande : en explorativ studie om säkerhetskulturen inom kärnkraftsindustrin." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Avd.), 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-39000.
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Like many industries, the nuclear power industry in Sweden is currently facing the challenges of a major generational change. To meet these challenges, alongside the demands for a high level of security, the industry has attempted to standardise its mode of operations as far as possible. Apart from various technological fixes and safety devices, manuals and instructions have been modelled for every conceivable situation, or course of events; documentations and formal systems of co-ordination that become larger and larger, and more and more detailed. In high-risk industries there is a tendency to equate learning with changes in external patterns of behaviour, as against fixed standards, typically among operating staff. The acquisition of professional skill, on the other hand, is the result of participation in practice. From this point of view, rather, learning is the outcome of reflection, upon actual events and experiences. Recurrent training can be used to promote formalisation, but also to explore and reinforce the experience based knowledge of skilled operators; between these approaches, the former prevails. Accidents and incidents incessantly put in question what is commonly referred to as the safety culture of various power plants, and subsequent to the misfortunes at Forsmark 1 in 2006, the accident was described as the culmination of a longterm decline in safety culture. The strong requirement for security and control is a cause of formalisation, whereas the need to support reflection as formation of professional skill tends to be omitted. Even so, experience based skill and knowledge remains a substantial consituent of what could be regarded as a dependable safety culture. Codified knowledge must be interpreted and applied in practice. Furthermore, experienced professionals, from encountering a great variety of situations, seem to develop what can be described as the skill of anticipation, and, as shown in connection with the incident at Forsmark 1, an ability to handle the unexpected. The urge for formalisation raises certain concerns: that of the primacy of defining the containments of professional skill, the impact and resilience of local knowledge and diversity, and the hollowing out of ability and skill within work-life organisations. The “human factor”, that is the operating staff, is commonly made responsible for established accidents and incidents. Even so, experienced personnel are able to manage a variety of unforeseen events and disturbances, that sometimes occur in high-risk technology industries. At times, on the contrary, the human factor saves technology, instead of the other way around. This study explores the concept of safety culture within the nuclear power industry from an epistemological perspective. It discusses the use of recurrent training, and the role of experience based skill and knowledge in the operating of Swedish power plants. What methods can be employed to support experience based knowledge as an essential complement to standardised work processes, codified knowledge, or benchmark strategies? Principles of formalisation need to be supplemented with a more thorough exploration of professional skill, in which a distinction between behaviour and responsibility can be made.<br>QC 20110906
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Lainé, Michaël. "Quelle rationalité pour les esprits animaux ? : étude sur le comportement d'investissement des entrepreneurs en incertitude non probabilisable." Thesis, Bordeaux, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014BORD0151/document.
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Sur fond d’incertitude radicale, les entrepreneurs ne peuvent s’en remettre à un calcul précis de rentabilité. Pour les anticipations d’investissement, ils ont recours à leurs esprits animaux, c’est-à-dire un jugement analogique instinctif sur le futur associé à une décision émotionnelle automatique par rapport à lui en fonction de motivations. La notion remonte à l’Antiquité. Elle était synonyme d’influx nerveux. Si l’on interroge les neurosciences d’aujourd’hui, ce sont les marqueurs somatiques qui l’éclairent. Nos émotions servent à arrêter la réflexion, restreindre l’espace des possibles et valoriser certaines options. Elles contribuent à l’intelligence de nos décisions. C’est l’excès, de cognition ou d’émotion, qui est à éviter. Les émotions servent également à réviser ou renforcer nos croyances. Par leur mouvement propre, elles peuvent créer des cycles, ce que nous proposons d’appeler « le paradoxe de la confiance ». Une confiance élevée prépare le terrain de la chute future. À l’inverse, une confiance basse met peu à peu en place les conditions du retournement de conjoncture. Notre travail propose une analyse du raisonnement inductif en économie, à l’origine de l’élaboration de scénarios anticipatifs. Le capital culturel et symbolique semble également orienter les esprits animaux. Notre enquête empirique établit l’existence d’un lien entre capital culturel et prise de risque. Elle dessine aussi une typologie des esprits animaux à même de saisir l’hétérogénéité des entrepreneurs. 11 familles sont dégagées, en fonction de leurs motivations, émotions, capitaux culturels, comportements d’investissement et scénarios anticipatifs privilégiés<br>In a background of fundamental uncertainty, entrepreneurs cannot rely on a precise calculus of profitability. For their investment expectations, they have to lean on their animal spirits, that is an analogical, instinctive judgment about the future associated with an automatic emotional decision under the guidance of motivations. The notion traces back to the Ancient times. She was then synonymous with “nerve impulse”. Nowadays, if one probes neuroscience, it appears that somatic markers could shed some light on them. Emotions are useful to stop thoughts, restrict the states of nature and value certain options. They contribute to the intelligence of decisions. It is the excess, be it of cognition or emotion, that is detrimental. Emotions also serve to update or strengthen our beliefs. By their own momentum, they can create cycles, which I propose to dub “the confidence paradox”. When confidence is high, the terrain for the future fall is being prepared. Conversely, when it is low, little by little the conditions for a reversal are being staged. Our work proposes an analysis of inductive reasoning responsible for the elaboration of anticipative scripts. Cultural and symbolic capital also appears to come into play. Our empirical inquiry establishes a link between cultural capital and risk-taking. It outlines as well a clustering of animal spirits so as to grasp the heterogeneity of entrepreneurs. 11 different sorts are outlined and sorted by their motivations, emotions, cultural capital, investment behaviors and preferred anticipative scripts
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Kennedy, Emily Barbara. "Biomimicry in Industry: The Philosophical and Empirical Rationale for Reimagining R&D." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491505696395819.
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Back, Danielsson Ing-Marie. "Masking Moments : The Transitions of Bodies and Beings in Late Iron Age Scandinavia." Doctoral thesis, Stockholm : Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies, 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6737.
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Benzineb, Baya. "La triade vitruvienne revisitée à travers l'exemple de l'architecture d'Hervé Tordjman : la place de l'art et de la technique dans le processus de conception." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAH005/document.
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La triade de Vitruve revisitée à travers l’exemple de l’architecture d’Hervé Tordjman. La place de l’art et de la technique dans le processus de conception. Aujourd’hui, la conception de l’architecture demeure comme à son origine, dépendante de l’interaction des trois qualités indissociables de Vitruve : firmitas, utilitas et venustas, considérées autrefois indispensables à l’acte de concevoir. L’incarnation de cette triade dans le processus créatif des concepteurs contemporains que nous avons étudiés dans le cadre de cette thèse, qu’ils soient architectes-ingénieurs-artistes, architectes-artistes ou architectes-ingénieurs, est assujettie d’une part, aux mécanismes cognitifs : le modèle et la pensée analogique ; et d’autre part aux compétences et postures de chacun.Toutefois, en dépit de ce caractère personnel du processus conceptuel, ces trois qualités qui jadis devaient être articulées par une seule personne (l’architecte), se trouvent aujourd’hui menées à l’unisson selon un processus collectif.En effet, grâce aux nouvelles technologies numériques actuelles, l’architecte et les ingénieurs sont mobilisés dans un processus dit collaboratif abolissant ainsi les frontières entre « parti » architectural et « idée constructive », architecture et construction. A travers l’analyse de l’œuvre de l’architecte parisien Hervé Tordjman (1975), il faut souligner l’importance qu’acquiert la « firmitas » dans le processus de création en s’intégrant harmonieusement avec les autres composantes (utilitas et venustas). Ainsi, le point de vue de l’auteur et de chaque acteur de la chaine de conception devient partie intégrante dans le processus. Une telle articulation collective de la trinité vitruvienne dans la pratique contemporaine du projet marque une évolution dans la façon de concevoir l’acte architectural et non une rupture<br>Vitruvian triad revisited through the example of the architecture of Hervé Tordjman. The place of art and technique in the design process. Today, the design of architecture remains as to its origin, dependent on the interaction of three inseparable qualities stated by Vitruvius: firmitas, utilitas and venustas, once considered essential to the act of conceiving. The embodiment of this triad in the creative process of contemporary designers that is the concern of this thesis, both artists-architects-engineers, architects or artists-architects-engineers, is subject on the one hand, to cognitive mechanisms: the model and analogical thinking; and secondly to individual skills and postures.However, despite this personal character of the design process, these three qualities which once had to be articulated by one person (i.e. the architect), are now conducted in unison as a collective process.Indeed, thanks to new existing digital technologies, the architect and engineers are mobilized in a process said collaborative that abolishes the boundaries between the architectural part and the constructive system that is architecture and construction. Through the analysis of the work of the Parisian architect Hervé Tordjman (1975), we must emphasize the importance acquired by the "firmitas" in the creation process by being harmoniously integrated with other components (utilitas and venustas). Thus, the author’s view as well as that of each player in the design chain becomes part in the process. Such a collective articulation of the Vitruvian trinity in the contemporary practice project marks an evolution in how to design the architectural act, not a rupture
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Bertheau, Anne. "« Das Mädchen aus der Fremde » Hannah Arendt et la poésie." Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040122.
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Hannah Arendt est très célèbre comme historienne d’idées (Les origines du totalitarisme), largement connue comme théoricienne politique (ses essais) et considérée comme philosophe (Condition de l’homme moderne, La vie de l’esprit). Ces dernières années, les spécialistes allemands d’Arendt ont mis également en relief son intérêt pour la littérature. Cette thèse met pour la première fois en évidence de manière systématique les divers aspects concrets du rapport d’Arendt à la poésie : tant ses textes sur la poésie et la littérature de différents auteurs, que ses textes théoriques sur la poésie et finalement ses propres poèmes<br>Hannah Arendt is very famous as historian of ideas (Origins of totalitarism) and reknowned as political theorist (her essays) and as philosopher (The human condition, The life of the mind). The last years german scholars working on Arendt have brought out interest on Arendt and literature. For the first time this thesis stresses systematically different aspects on Arendt’s relation to poetry : her texts on poetry and literature of different authors as well as her theoretical texts on poetry and finally her own poetical texts
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Dunne, Caroline. "Att främja reflektion och samarbete : En essä om facilitatorns yrkeskunnande." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för fysik och elektroteknik (IFE), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-45048.
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Den här uppsatsen handlar om facilitatorns roll och yrkeskunnande. En roll som är relativt ny och för de flesta fortfarande helt obekant. Facilitatorn anlitas för att underlätta för grupper att föra samtal och dialog, men också för att gemensamt reflektera. Viktiga förutsättningar för att hitta formerna för fruktbara samarbeten, vilket står högt på många organisationers agendor idag. I uppsatsen redogör jag inledningsvis för den möteskultur som råder inom organisationer idag. En kultur där medarbetare och chefer avsätter mycket tid i möten som vare sig ger dem själva, organisationen eller samhället något av värde. Det är många gånger envägskommunikation eller förmedling av information. I en tidsanda som ställer höga krav på rationaliseringar och effektivseringar har det dessvärre också blivit så, att tiden för samtal och genuina dialoger succesivt har reducerats till förmån för ökad kommunikation i olika digitala kanaler, inte misnt e-mail och sociala medier. Jag vill hävda att vi människor behöver träffas och samtala för att nå en gemensam och fördjupad förståelse för varandra och våra olika sakfrågor. Vad händer på sikt om vi inte ges möjlighet till gemensam reflektion? Hur ska vi kunna samarbeta om vi inte lär känna varandra och de förutsättningar som råder? I inledningen redogör jag även för delar av den kunskapsteori som finns kopplat till ämnesområdet yrkeskunnande och teknologi, men också för min mission – att återerövra samtalet som en viktig arbetsmetod. Uppsatsen är skriven i essäistisk stil och det empiriska materialet kommer från de texter jag själv har författat under masterutbildnignens två år då dialogseminariemetoden tillämpats, men också från den dialogseminarieserie som jag själv har genomfört med sex andra facilitatorskollegor. Tillsammans har vi börjat utforska vår gemensamma profession och det yrkeskunnande som vi representerar. Facilitatorns yrkeskunnande är mångfacetterat och svårfångat, men handlar i mångt och mycket om att vara öppen för människors olikheter. Se dem som berikande. Vara krockfrämjande. Bejaka olika perspektiv och infallsvinklar på saker och ting. Inte vara rädd för att konfrontera. Facilitatorn jobbar med olika tempoväxlingar och har en mängd olika metoder och tekniker till sitt förfogande för att möta olika problemställningar. Planerat eller improviserat. Det finns tydliga analogier med teatern, men också med läkar- och läraryrket. Det handlar om att skapa spänningar och väcka känslor hos deltagarna. Och sedan ta hand om och förvalta de känslor som väckts. Som facilitator blir man aldrig fullärd. Alla grupper är olika och varje ny mötessituation bjuder på nya utmaningar. För mig känns det som att resan mot bättre vetande precis har börjat. I mina texter kan jag skönja en utveckling över tid, men det finns otaliga gator kvar att utforska. Jag är fortsatt nyfiken och jag vet bestämt att jag vil fortsätta att fördjupa mina kunskaper om facilitatorns yrkeskunnande och gärna då med dialogseminariet som fortsatt forskningsmetod.<br>This thesis explores the role and skills of a professional facilitator. A facilitator is hired to facilitate meetings and other group processes trough dialogue, conversations and active participation, with the purpose of makig reflection and collaboration within and between organisations possible.
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Chia-JungLee and 李佳蓉. "Cross-Industry Analogical Thinking Method for Creative Marketing Research." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26v96s.
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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>創意產業設計研究所<br>103<br>The cross-industry innovation is the special case of innovation, where already existing solutions from one industry are retranslated to meet the requirements of company’s current market or products in another industry. However, discussions on the application of cross-industry innovation focused on technological problem solving and product innovations. There’s no instance in the marketing innovation. Therefore, in this study, we propose the transfer of a marketing program taken from the nail polish industry and fast-food industry to the pudding market in order to explore the helpfulness of cross-industry innovation in marketing domain.
Baelle is a 4-year-old milk pudding brand in Tainan, a southern city of Taiwan. This study chose “Besides the value of health, delicacy and hand-made pudding, how to attract girls to buy Baelle’s milk pudding? ” as the topic of the control experiment. After introduction of the marketing program topic and the topic brand, 21 participants were asked to write down the marketing program thinking directly in 10 minutes and then followed the cross-industry analogical thinking steps, the method is used in the cross-industry product innovation, to develop the marketing program from nail polish industry or fast food industry in 40 minutes. The creativity of marketing programs was scored by four marketing experts. The obtained scores were counted and analyzed by the Wilcoxon signed rank test, to discuss the difference between direct thinking results and cross-industry analogical thinking results in the marketing program creativity.
The final results indicate that the process of analogy thinking in cross-industry product innovation is helpful for enhancing the creativity of the marketing program significantly, both in novelty and meaningfulness dimensions of creativity. Moreover, from the feedback questionnaires, most participants think the process of analogy thinking is easy for them and helpful for the developing process of creating marketing differentiation. In conclusion, the cross-industry marketing innovation is worth researching deeper and using in practice to enhance marketing creativity.
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Liao, Yuan-Yu, and 廖元鈺. "Three Phenomena of Analogical Thinking in Design - Conventional Media vs. Computer." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20327723171624375024.
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碩士<br>國立交通大學<br>建築研究所<br>97<br>In this research, the author proposes three phenomena of analogical thinking in design. Analogy has been ascribed a key role in the architecture design. Until now, there is no a complete theory describing how analogical thinking process works in design domain. Moreover, analogical thinking always relates to freehand sketches and rarely connects with other medium. Therefore, this research attempted to investigate the analogical thinking from the perspective of design media. Two purposes in this research are to study the common points of analogical thinking in design field, and the differences of analogical thinking process in conventional media and computer. In order to achieve the objectives, there are three parts consisted in this research including two phases of experiment, analyzing the data and addressing three phenomena of analogical thinking. According to the results of analysis, analogical thinking is an interaction between designers, analogical sources, design target, and design media. Designers play the most important role in analogical thinking process because they can choose and transfer the idea which they are interested in. The analogical depth also depends on the designer's imagination and creativity. On the other hand, the design media play a supporting role in analogical thinking process. It means that the characteristics of design media not only affect design process and design result but also offer the variability of analogical thinking design. The contribution of the research is a preliminary understanding of analogical thinking in design field. The limitation of the research is owing to few numbers of subjects and still no theory describe how analogical thinking works in this field, the author use the common research method of investigating design process. The research discusses some phenomena of analogical thinking in design field. Our further study will focus on broad approach of analogical thinking and offer a framework of analogical thinking process.
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Huang, Wei-Chih, and 黃威誌. "Effects of analogical thinking on open innovation and new product performance: The mediating effects of absorptive capacity." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/00016817227594258731.
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碩士<br>國立高雄應用科技大學<br>商務經營研究所<br>99<br>Analogical thinking has been widely applied to solving problems and the activities of technological innovation during the product development. Enterprises have recognized the importance of analogical thinking and have actively promoted the use of analogical thinking during the new product development. Accordingly, this study examines the potential impact of analogical thinking on inbound open innovation and new product performance ; this study also examines whether absorptive capacity acts as a mediator in the process. This study constructs a theoretical model to assess the relationships between the latent variables and uses the questionnaire survey as the data collection tool. To clarify the relationships between the latent variables, this study utilizes structural equation modeling to test goodness-of-fit for the model and the research hypotheses. Research data is collected using surveys of 134 team member of 54 new product development team sampled from Taiwanese enterprises, which are in manufacturing or service industry. Empirical results indicate that absorptive capacity has a significant mediating effect between analogical thinking and inbound open innovation as well as between analogical thinking and new product performance. The contribution of this paper lies in explaining the role played by absorptive capacity in the process of open innovation.
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Wang, Wenkai, and 王玟凱. "How to improve originality of new service concepts? Using analogical thinking to assist in ordinary user's idea generation." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31033048128101110688.
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博士<br>國立中央大學<br>資訊管理學系<br>101<br>Along the rapid development of new technologies, technology-based services have become essentials in human life. Because customers are the major objects which service providers are eager to satisfy, customers’ inputs are then regarded crucial for developing new technology-based services. However, due to the lack of competence and proper tools, customers are hardly to transform their ideas into an interpretive form of new service ideas even though they possess rich first-hand experiences in usage. Therefore, the author reviewed the literatures of new service idea generation and creative thinking techniques, and proposed analogical thinking as a beneficial creativity technique to facilitate the transformation from use experiences into valid ideas of new services. Meanwhile, applying certain managing tactics in the process of idea generation may further improve the effectiveness of analogical thinking. In order to examine the above argument, the author selected mobile application services as the research context and recruited undergraduate students to join in a 2x2 (analogical distance and source requirement) experiment. The experiment result shows that (1) analogical distance is contributive to the production of more far analogies and the variety of analogy, (2) applying source requirement leads to higher variety of analogy. However, the expected interaction effect between analogical distance and source requirement on variety of analogy is not supported. Finally, variety of analogy and the proportion of far analogies are both significant predictors to the improvement of idea originality. At the end, the author provided discussion, theoretical contribution, and expected managerial implication.
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Henner, Jon. "The relationship between American Sign Language vocabulary and the development of language-based reasoning skills in deaf children." Thesis, 2016. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/14562.
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The language-based analogical reasoning abilities of Deaf children are a controversial topic. Researchers lack agreement about whether Deaf children possess the ability to reason using language-based analogies, or whether this ability is limited by a lack of access to vocabulary, both written and signed. This dissertation examines factors that scaffold the development of language-based analogical reasoning through signed language. First it examines how background factors, such as age, race/ethnicity, or additional disabilities can affect the development of language-based analogical reasoning. Second, it looks at how different kinds of American Sign Language (ASL) vocabulary support the development of language-based analogical reasoning. Five-hundred and fifty-six Deaf children were given five tasks from the ASL Assessment Instrument; one analogies task and four vocabulary tasks: an antonyms task, a synonyms task, a definitions task, and a contextual-based vocabulary task. The data showed that background traits can and do affect how well Deaf children reason using language-based analogies. The most important predictor of performance on the analogies task was ASL vocabulary knowledge, although other factors such as age, race/ethnicity, and additional disabilities can impact task performance. The data also showed that ASL vocabulary knowledge that promotes metalinguistic thinking is the best predictor of language-based analogical reasoning abilities. Potential applications to the classroom and to teacher training are also discussed.
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Chou, Hong-Teng, and 周鴻騰. "The Effects of Case-Based Biomimicry Teaching on Naturalist Intelligence, analogical thinking, biomimicry design and environmental attitudes for University Students." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/62520234196418302600.
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博士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>環境教育研究所<br>104<br>This study assessed the effects of guided biomimicry teaching of naturalist intelligence, analogical thinking,biomimicry design and environmental attitudes for Environmental Engineering students. An embedded experimental and nonequivalent pretest-posttest design was used. Experimental group 1, received complete biomimicry teaching (N=43). Experimental group 2, received one-half biomimicry teaching (N=30). The control group, received didactic teaching without any biomimicry teaching (N=35). The outcomes of the intervention was measured by questionnaires before the course (pre-test), after the course (post-test) and four weeks after (follow-up test) the intervention. The main research results are reported as follows: (1) After the experimental intervention, the post-test, follow-up test results revealed that the two experimental group cannot improve significantly in a short time of naturalist intelligence. The experience of outdoors observation, breeding animals, and observe details of life carefully were helpful to increase naturalist intelligence. (2)The two experimental groups achieved higher biomimicry design scores than the control group. The experimental group 1 students’ analogical thinking and biomimicry design scores are significantly better than experimental group 2 after four weeks.(3) View from portfolio assessment A to B, students find the difficult include of compare similarity, analysis of scientific principles, what biomimicry product design and draw sketches. Students study actively on professional and design knowledge and have meta-cognitive, could improve ability of analogy skills and design sketches. (4) Most of the student’s identify with the development of biomimicry industry, but the premise was must takes care of the welfare of biology, ecosystems and humans simultaneously. Students have business opportunity and hope to solve environmental problems based on “learning from nature”.(5) After the course, students have new ideas of environmental problem solving, also have more interest, curiosity, and active exploration to biomimicry.
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Lockett, Michael. "Education by Metaphor." Thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7821.
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What is metaphor and how do we learn to think analogically? Education by Metaphor explores these questions from two perspectives: poetics and curriculum theorizing. Through this discursive inquiry, I develop arguments and hypotheses on the origins, mechanics, and educative possibilities of metaphor, often by drawing from Zwicky’s philosophical work and interviews I conducted with six Canadian writers. I sought conversations with these writers because the works they publish display deft and provocative analogical play. I wanted to know what they know about metaphor, and how they came to know such things, and how these ideas inform their critical, artistic, and pedagogical practices. I also asked for their thoughts on particular discursive conflicts and metaphoric models, and I asked them about their curricular experiences, both formal and otherwise. Excerpts from these transcripts are interwoven throughout the manuscript, according to their connections with the topics at hand.
The first chapter of this dissertation traces metaphor’s discursive history and delineates its conflict with philosophy. From that foundation, I critique contemporary models for metaphor that stem from Black’s and Richards’ theorizing; after explaining why they are ill-suited to poetic terrain, I develop a less reductive model. Much of this work informs subsequent chapters, hence its preliminary positioning. In the second chapter I approach metaphor anthropologically and advance hypotheses for how we, as a species, might have come to think metaphorically. These hypotheses emphasize empathy and anthropomorphism, two important notions nested within the inner-workings of analogical thought. In turn, these hypotheses inform the third chapter’s explorations of poetic and ontological attention. This theoretical work reveals concepts integrally related to metaphor’s emergence, for example aesthetic experience, defamiliarization, and the interplay of pattern and anomaly. In the fourth chapter, I revisit these concepts from a more empirical perspective and use comments from my interviewees to illuminate intersections amongst play, pedagogy, and analogical thought. Lastly, the fifth chapter asks, what good is the study of metaphor? I respond to this question by addressing metaphor’s imaginative, ethical, and educational consequences.<br>Thesis (Ph.D, Education) -- Queen's University, 2013-02-19 12:13:38.213