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Storsten, Emelie. "Traditional ways of strategic thinking – the only truth?" Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Företagsekonomiska institutionen, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-155619.
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The classical approach to strategy defines strategy as a process of planned calculation and analysis to design long-term advantages. The Structure-Conduct-Performance (SCP) model argues that firms perform and develop strategies based on market structures. These approaches have been seen as the “norm” but are today criticised as outdated since they do not fully suit new emerging markets. The aim of the study is to investigate whether these approaches need modifications for emerging markets and if unique factors need to be emphasized when developing sale strategies for the Chinese market. The empirical findings are based on two Scandinavian firms with long experience in China. A qualitative exploratory research design is conducted trough the study. As a conclusion a guideline of vital factors for the Chinese market is provided: market knowledge, political and social system, relationships and branding. The knowledge of these factors can help other companies to master the complex environment of the Chinese market.
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Clarke, H. H. P. "Ways of thinking : an essay on referential coordination." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2016. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1521086/.
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Referential coordination occurs when a thinker is rational in treating her thoughts as being about the same thing. This is manifested primarily in the thinker's dispositions to make inferences, paradigmatically the disposition to infer an existential generalisation conjoining two or more properties without recourse to an additional premise concerning an identity. It therefore presents an indispensable way for identity to figure in thought. This topic is often addressed in the form of discussions of so-called Frege cases, identity judgements, or coreference de jure. I argue that referential coordination should be treated as an independent and prior explanatory problem. The problem referential coordination presents is to explain the rationality of the paradigmatic inferential dispositions. I discuss three prominent theories of thought in relation to this problem: the appeal to propositional contents akin to Frege's notion of sense; the appeal to mental representations that can be typed in some way; and the appeal to mental files and their functional properties. Representatives of these theories fail to provide an explanation that is at once non-circular, psychologically realistic, and sufficiently general. I propose an alternative coordination functions explanation. This uses an amended version of mental file theory that distinguishes between mental files and file predications, and combines this with an apparatus of defaults and defeaters familiar from entitlement epistemology. File predications, the associations of files with bits of information, serve as the basis of the paradigmatic inferential dispositions, and so have normative functional properties that provide a default indication of sameness of reference open to defeat by conflicting information. This relatively deflationary explanation is distinctive in dispensing with any explanatory notion of a concept. It can be extended to providing a similarly deflationary account of the rational role of identity judgements and thoughts about oneself and one's immediate environment.
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Leung, Hai-ka Elaine, and 梁凱嘉. "Critical thinking and knowledge in liberal studies: ways of seeing." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2010. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B48364915.
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The study explores perceptions of critical thinking and knowledge by New Senior Secondary Liberal Studies teachers in Hong Kong. The insights in this study have implications for the curriculum development and pedagogy, particularly regarding how we can improve the teachers training of critical thinking.
Seven Liberal Studies teachers (with various levels of teaching experience and differing backgrounds) were invited to in-depth interviews about their experience teaching Liberal Studies, and particularly regarding critical thinking and knowledge, as well as their pedagogies and views of this subject.
Factors such as work experience, personality, school training, and cultural identity affect ways of seeing ‘critical thinking’ and ‘knowledge’. Also, these interviews provide insights into a better pedagogy in high order thinking. We can gain understanding of the difficulties and constraints of teaching critical thinking in Liberal Studies. The research is also a critical thinking process, which is explored in conversations with participants. The study asked them to reflect on what they thought and had experienced. The participants gave useful insights and suggestions.published_or_final_version
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Turakhia, Dishita Girish. "Thirteen ways of looking : a theoretical inquiry in computational creative thinking." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113918.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2017.Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017.
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The vision of this research is to propose a novel computational framework to study Creative Thinking. If we are to embed machines with creative thinking abilities, then we first need to study the evanescent nature of human creative thinking. Creative thinking is neither entirely random nor strictly logical, making it difficult to t its computation into structured logical models of thinking. Given this conundrum, how can we computationally study the process of thinking creatively? In this research, I first present the current scientific definitions of creative thinking. Through literary survey of cognitive, computational and design thinking frameworks, I identify the missing links between human creativity and AI models of creative thinking. I assert that creative thinking is result of two features of human intelligence, cognitive diversity and social interaction. Cognitive diversity or the ability to parse knowledge in dierent ways is a crucial aspect of creative thinking. Furthermore, social interaction between cognitively diverse individuals results in restructuring of thoughts leading to creativity and epiphanies (the aha moments). I posit that Shape Grammar, with its ability to fluidly restructure computation, can be used to study and demonstrate cognitive diversity and interaction. If we conceive thoughts as shapes and ideas as configurations of those shapes, then cognitive diversity can be described as rule-based computation on shapes to generate those configurations; and interaction as the exchange of rules between cognitive diverse entities (humans or machines). The contributions of this research are threefold. First, I present a literature review of current frameworks, and identify the two gaps between machine and human creativity. Secondly, I demonstrate how shape grammar can ll those gaps of cognitive diversity and interaction. Thirdly, I propose thought-shape framework that adapts principles of shape grammar for computational creative thinking.
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Macdonald, Murdo James Stewart. "Birth order, art and science : a study of ways of thinking." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/19069.
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Serig, Daniel. "Visual metaphor and the contemporary artist ways of thinking and making." Saarbrücken VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2005. http://d-nb.info/989351890/04.
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Sybert, Darlene. "Two ways of knowing and the romantic poets /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3052219.
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McFadzean, Elspeth. "New ways of thinking : an evaluation of K-groupware and creative problem-solving." Thesis, Henley Business School, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.295195.
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Baxter, Natalie Sue. "The Progymnasmata: New/Old Ways to Teach Reading, Writing, and Thinking in Secondary Schools." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2008. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2576.pdf.
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Kim, Min Young. "Theorizing Languaging Thinking as Ways of Reading: A Microethnographic Study in an English Language Arts Classroom." The Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1531489010543586.
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Barrett, G. "Learning in the schooling process : Ways of thinking, learning and knowing in classroom interactions of pupils from 4 to 16." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372213.
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Stephenson, Valerie. "Equal to the challenge : reconstructing ways of thinking, knowing and doing, Re: the schooling of young black women in Metro - Montreal." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0004/MQ43598.pdf.
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Garcia, Diana Bertuol. "The science-practice interface in Ecology and Conservation: a conceptual framework and shared ways of thinking among scientists and decision-makers." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/41/41134/tde-17102017-165730/.
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Many current debates in Ecology and Conservation Science center on how to navigate the interface between science, policy and practice with the aim of using science to support viable, effective solutions to environmental problems. This dissertation has the general aim of contributing to devise ways to navigate the science-practice interface by taking an interdisciplinary approach to identify (1) how the academic debate on this subject has been framed, and (2) how scientists and decision-makers have been thinking about the relationship between science and practice. In chapter 1, I present a literature review, based on 1563 sentences describing causes of the science-practice gap extracted from 122 articles published in Ecology and Biodiversity Conservation journals. I use text analysis techniques to organize these causes into a process-based conceptual framework that describes three perspectives on the important processes, knowledges and actors in the science-practice interface. I then evaluate the predominance of these perspectives over time and across journals, and assess them in light of disciplines studying the role of science in decision-making, such as Political Science. The unchanged predominance over time of the perspective centered on a linear, unidirectional flow of scientific knowledge from science to practice suggests debates in Ecology and Conservation lag behind trends in other disciplines towards perspectives focusing on a bidirectional, integrative flow of knowledges between science and practice. In Ecology and Conservation, the integrative perspective seems primarily restricted to research traditions historically isolated from mainstream Conservation Biology, which in turn has been dominated by \"evidence-based conservation\" approaches. All identified perspectives represent superficial views of decision-making by not accounting for limits to human rationality, complexity of decision-making contexts, fuzzy science-practice boundaries, ambiguity brought about by science, and different types of knowledge use. Nonetheless, the integrative perspective emphasizing collaborative work between scientists and decision-makers may potentially allow for more democratic decision-making processes and explicit discussions of values. In chapter 2, I focus on scientists and decision-makers from Brazil, a tropical developing nation with a growing science and rich biodiversity, but currently facing several drawbacks in environmental policies. I used the three perspectives of the conceptual framework of chapter 1 to create a list of 48 statements describing how the science-practice interface should ideally be. Using Q-methodology from psychology, I asked 22 ecologists and environmental federal analysts to rank their agreement with these statements. Principal component analysis revealed three groups of participants with similar rankings of statements, thus holding shared ways of thinking about the science-practice interface. All ways of thinking assigned great importance to actors and knowledges from both science and practice, but differed on the roles assigned to science, scientists or decision-makers, indicating the need to openly debate expected roles for each actor in science-practice partnerships. Moreover, such partnerships seem to be hindered by a lack of organizational incentive rather than by cultural differences between scientists and decision-makers. In the final session of the dissertation, I integrate the conclusions from both chapters, highlighting the most important implications for a better understanding of the science-practice interface and for fostering productive science-practice linkages in Ecology and ConservationA interface ciência-prática em Ecologia e Conservação: um esquema conceitual e modos de pensaDiversos debates atuais em Ecologia e Ciência da Conservação estão centrados em como navegar na interface entre ciência e prática com o objetivo de usar a ciência para apoiar soluções efetivas e viáveis para os problemas ambientais. Esta dissertação tem como objetivo geral contribuir com caminhos para navegar na interface ciência-prática ao identificar, através de uma abordagem interdisciplinar, (1) como o debate acadêmico sobre este assunto tem sido feito e (2) como a relação entre ciência e prática é percebida por cientistas e tomadores de decisão. No capítulo 1, apresento uma revisão da literatura, conduzida a partir de 1563 frases sobre as causas da lacuna ciência-prática extraídas de 122 artigos publicados em periódicos de Ecologia e Conservação da Biodiversidade. Uso técnicas de análise de texto para organizar essas causas em um esquema conceitual que descreve três perspectivas sobre os processos, conhecimentos e atores importantes na interface ciência-prática. A seguir, averiguo a predominância dessas perspectivas ao longo do tempo e em diferentes periódicos, para depois avaliar as perspectivas à luz de disciplinas que estudam o papel da ciência na tomada de decisão, como a Ciência Política. A predominância ao longo do tempo da perspectiva centrada em um fluxo unidirecional de conhecimento da ciência para a prática sugere que o debate em Ecologia e Conservação não seguiu a tendência observada em outras disciplinas na direção de perspectivas enfatizando um fluxo bidirecional e integrativo de conhecimentos entre a ciência e a prática. Em Ecologia e Conservação, a perspectiva integrativa parece estar restrita a tradições de pesquisa historicamente isoladas da Biologia da Conservação, que, por sua vez, é dominada por abordagens de \"conservação baseada em evidência\". Todas as perspectivas constatadas representam visões superficiais da tomada de decisão ao desconsiderarem limites à racionalidade humana, a complexidade da tomada de decisão, fronteiras difusas entre ciência e prática, a ambiguidade trazida pela ciência e diferentes tipos de uso de conhecimento. Por outro lado, a perspectiva integrativa que enfatiza o trabalho colaborativo entre cientistas e tomadores de decisão permite potencialmente processos de tomada de decisão mais democráticos e discussões explícitas de valores. No capítulo 2, eu me volto para cientistas e tomadores de decisão do Brasil, um país tropical em desenvolvimento com uma ciência crescente e uma rica biodiversidade, mas cujas políticas ambientais vem sofrendo diversas ameaças. A partir das três perspectivas do esquema conceitual do capítulo 1, elaborei uma lista de 48 frases descrevendo como a interface entre ciência e prática deveria ser. Usando a metodologia Q advinda da Psicologia, pedi para 22 ecólogos e analistas ambientais do IBAMA ranquearem suas concordâncias com essas frases. Uma análise de componentes principais revelou três grupos de participantes com ranqueamentos similares, apresentando, portanto, modos de pensar compartilhados sobre a interface ciência-prática. Todas as formas de pensar conferiram grande importância para atores e conhecimentos da ciência e da prática, mas houve divergência nos papéis atribuídos à ciência, aos cientistas e aos tomadores de decisão, indicando a necessidade de debater abertamente os papéis que se espera que cada ator assuma nas parcerias entre ciência e prática. Além disso, a falta de estímulo organizacional parece ser um entrave maior para essas parcerias do que diferenças culturais entre cientistas e tomadores de decisão. Na última sessão da dissertação, eu integro as conclusões dos dois capítulos, ressaltando as implicações mais importantes para uma melhor compreensão da interface ciência-prática e para o fomento de parcerias produtivas entre ciência e prática em Ecologia e Conservaçãor compartilhados entre cientistas e tomadores de decisão
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Suhie, Michele M. "Time to retire old ways of thinking a validation of the transtheoretical model in a new application to psycho-social retirement planning /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1147267423.
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Guyot, Amelie M. L. "Spaces for enchantment and the unknown : fairy tales, complexity thinking and a search for new ways of dreaming : children-centred sustainable development." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/2523.
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Thesis (MPhil (Sustainable Development Planning and Management))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.This research explores spaces for enchantment and the unknown, exploring our relationship to fairy-tales and alternative ways of dreaming that break from a modern worldview, using complexity thinking as lens. I conducted extra-mural group work with two groups of adolescents from disadvantaged backgrounds. I considered the world young people receive at a metaphysical level; the world they dream of, connect to and enact. My thesis is based on the premise that we must act towards a ‘sustainable unknown development’ that goes beyond modern deadly homogenisation. The research objectives were as follows: Firstly, to explore the relationship between dreams (about the future) and a sustainable future. Secondly, to reflect, based on the group’s holding-space, on our relationship to dreams. Thirdly, to reflect on possible alternative ways of approaching the unknown and enacting enchantment to create change. Fourthly, to explore the importance of imagination and creativity with regards to the above. I review literature pertaining to the affects of the modern paradigm, specifically in its fairy tale blueprinting form, on our world. I argue that this paradigm is currently dangerous to the earth as a living system; causing the oppression and abandonment of nature, the feminine, children and our imagination. Alternative ways such as states of ‘interbeing’, polycentric thinking, and the experience of thresholds and heterotopian spaces where differences meet, are considered. The importance of personal experience and imagination in building resilience and meaning in the unknown are emphasised. My research uses a practical design of ‘enchantment methodology’. Methodologically it tries to tackle some ontological questions, considering different approaches in which negotiation is possible at a metaphysical level. My findings were that although alternative approaches do exist they cannot be generalised in a modern thinking way. Beyond the modern numbness and the tantrums of breaking away from its devastating divides, is the potential of inner wisdom found in our own hearts. Recommendations are that more holding spaces are created to promote an alternative relationship to the unknown to nurture a sense of enchantment.
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Valeri, Alishia Adele. "Educating About/for Food Security Through Environmental Education: A Qualitative Study of Teacher Education Programs in Ontario." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/40719.
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Food insecurity is on the rise worldwide and within Canada due to a myriad of factors such as climatic instability, rising food prices and unsustainable food production practices. In this context, educational systems (e.g. schools and universities) can contribute to developing knowledge and awareness of food insecurity as well as fostering new ways of thinking and engaging with food premised on just and sustainable food systems. This study is situated within the field of environmental education where there is a growing body of research at the intersections of food and the environment. Likewise, it was guided by the theoretical framing of EcoJustice Education, which offers a way of teaching and learning premised on the belief that our thoughts and actions can foster and enhance more social and ecologically equitable connections between food and the environment. By engaging in semi-structured interviews with teacher educators in select teacher education programs in Ontario and conducting document reviews, I investigated how the integration of the topic of food security is taking place—or not—in the initial training of future teachers in the province. The results showed that integration is not consistent across the different organizational levels of the programs investigated (i.e. whole-program level and classroom level). Moreover, the interviews with teacher educators revealed that any practices aiming at the integration of food security topics in BEd programs were primarily guided by a sustainable cultures perspective, which sees the world as having interconnected relationships amongst all living things. This view is supported by the data analysis of interviews with teacher educators, the Ontario Ministry of Education curriculum documents, and select course syllabi. On the other hand, the school curriculum documents contained conflicting views on the topic, including an understanding of the world as being based on hierarchized relationships. This research advances the field of environmental education by further adding to the limited scholarship on the topic of food security in the context of EE, as well as contributing to an account of food security education and EE with a focus on teacher education in Ontario.
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Allen, Dianne. "Contributing to learning to change developing an action learning peer support group of professionals to investigate ways of improving their own professional practice /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050901.105532/index.html.
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Finkel, Kelsey Jo. "Exploring the writer's toolbox : a study of how writers and their use of writing implements and surfaces relate to their ways of thinking for writing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:daaae0e7-10f0-4c9f-bbe3-8157c2fa47df.
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The state of writing abilities throughout the United States presents an urgent issue. Low student achievement in English Language Arts (ELA) exams and standardized English assessments persist (National Center for Education Statistics, 2012), while businesses spend billions of dollars on remedial writing instruction (Dillon, 2008). Technology is increasingly cited as a potential solution to these issues. Evidence for this is limited, as is existing research into the basis of the issues that technology might address. On account of that context, this thesis turns to a basic distinction between digital and non-digital writing: the writing surface and implement, or pen and paper - screen and keyboard. Conceptualizing such artefacts through a view of writing as a way of thinking raises the following question, which is this study's guiding inquiry. Might we use digital implements and surfaces to support the ways of thinking involved in composing written works of semantic cohesion? Building on research into writing as thinking, the study presented in this document analyses how uses of writing surfaces and implements relate to ways of thinking while writing, and which contextual factors influence those relationships. Drawing on a neuro-anthropological approach, the study focuses on the writer's mind as the driver and source of the lived experience of writing. Expert writers, therefore, are considered to be those who exhibit the ways of thinking while writing to which other writers aspire. To examine a range of uses of writing surfaces and implements with reference to expert writers' ways of thinking, the study was conducted in two parts. Part 1involved a content analysis of published interviews with professional writers. This generated a framework through which to conduct in-depth qualitative research with college student writers - part 2. This thesis is as much about thinking while writing as it is about the different tools available for writing. As such, the study refutes the hyperbolic and deterministic claims about technology and writing, and finds that technology is not leading to new ways of thinking while writing. Instead, surfaces and implements available allow writers to change how they practise their ways of thinking while writing. By considering this distinction and developing understandings of the dynamics involved and their implications, writers may begin to realize the potential of technology for writing. Ultimately, this thesis contributes to existing theories on writing through an informed discussion of how to think about implements and surfaces in ways that support writerly thinking, and by offering fresh ways to think about the lived practice of writing.
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Connelly, Heather. "Speaking through the voice of another : how can art practice be used to provoke new ways of thinking about the transformations and transitions that happen in linguistic translation?" Thesis, Loughborough University, 2015. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/17999.
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Speaking through the voice of another is a practice-based PhD that employs art practice to interrogate translation (as a textual and verbal practice). It uses linguistic translation as both the subject and the method to make multimedia artworks (text, sound, performance and events) that examine and analyse the translation process itself. The research has been conducted from my own subjective position, as an artist and monolingual speaker (a translation user rather than translation professional), investigating translation as a dialogic, subjective, embodied and performative phenomena. It adopts a self-reflexive methodology that places equal value in theoretical and experiential knowledge and proposes that an artist-led inquiry challenges assumptions, translation protocols, conventions and normative behaviour. The artists and artworks discussed in the thesis examine the translators /translation s agency and its linguistic performativity; exploiting it s creative potential as an artistic process/medium and amplifying its pivotal role within the expanding global art world. This transdisciplinary approach has resulted in the creation of translation zones - works and events devised to engage monolingual and multilingual individuals, professional translators, practitioners and public(s) in the process of translation - that offer an alternative perspective on translation (to research carried out within Translation Studies). Consequently, generating new knowledge that contributes to our understanding of translation and art and beyond both disciplines, creating a new transdisciplinary genre of art-and-translation. The artworks are an integral part of the thesis submission; samples and documentation of these are accessible within the full interactive PDF ersion. The layout of the thesis has been specifically designed to ease communication of the research, it uses various visual cues to distinguish between different types of information and to demonstrate my research praxis; the continual movement between theory and practice.
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Gravel, Jenna W. "A disciplined application of Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Supporting teachers to apply UDL in ways that promote disciplinary thinking in English Language Arts (ELA) among diverse learners." Thesis, Harvard University, 2017. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33051610.
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This qualitative study used design-based research to explore how teachers can be supported to apply Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in ways that promote disciplinary thinking in English Language Arts (ELA) among diverse learners. Using a purposive sampling strategy, I recruited three upper-elementary teachers who were interested in exploring the intersection of UDL and disciplinary thinking in ELA. This study occurred over eleven months and included three phases: 1) establishing a baseline for each teacher in terms of current practice and current understandings of UDL and disciplinary thinking; 2) collaboratively designing, implementing, and refining an individualized intervention with each teacher; and 3) reflecting on our collaboration. Data were collected throughout these phases via classroom observation, collection of instructional materials and student work, teacher interviews, and regular meetings. The analytical framework for this study joins CAST’s UDL Guidelines and common themes of disciplinary thinking in ELA distilled from the literature and piloted in my qualifying paper. Data were analyzed to determine how teachers’ practice, understandings, and beliefs evolved; how students’ disciplinary thinking evolved; and which aspects of the interventions were useful in developing teachers’ practice, understandings, and beliefs. A case study approach was used to dive deeply into each teacher’s journey, and a cross-case analytic approach was used to uncover common and divergent themes. The findings underscore the potential synergy between UDL and disciplinary thinking and reveal the rich student thinking that is possible when UDL is leveraged for disciplinary aims. Further, the findings contribute to existing conversations on teacher change by exploring the influence of teachers’ preexisting practices and beliefs on their learning trajectories and by identifying the factors and conditions of the interventions that facilitated teacher growth: developing the lenses to “see” evidence of student thinking, leveraging tools for specific aims, and attending to the affective nature of the learning process. Together, these findings have potential to inform leaders in schools, districts, and organizations who seek to support teachers to apply UDL to encourage all learners to engage in disciplinary thinking in ELA—and who seek to support teacher learning at a broader level as well.
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Backhaus, Vincent Stuart. "Situating the countried existence of critical indigenous pedagogies & Aborginal and Torres Strait Islander student's ways of learning." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/288428.
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The Countried experience of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of (Australia), ground a resilience and strength in sovereign thinking through the Stories we share laterally with family and inter-ancestrally through our connections to the Dreaming. The stories we share develop a sense of inalienability we have that is connected to the Countries of origin we share and identify with across the continental scape of Land, Water and Sky Country. As a formative philosophical assumption, the Countried existence that this dissertation develops, illuminates the significance of this research thinking to contribute to the continued development of Indigenous education for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students attending secondary high schools across (Australia). By attending to the ways Elders as significant Indigenous leaders describe and develop their storied lives through lived experience, this Countried philosophy emerges through the Storied knowing of Country. By examining the approaches to learning Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students adopt, further evidence can be contributed to the research surrounding Indigenous thinking and cognitive approaches to thinking through education learning tasks. By examining the perceptions and beliefs of non-indigenous teachers, this dissertation aims to contribute evidence to Indigenous pedagogies that teachers can deploy in the delivery of meaningful Indigenous Knowledge curricula content. Summatively, this thesis found that when deep engagements are made into the notion of inalienability of Countried experience, salient avenues of thinking and learning and teaching emerge surrounding the ways education can continue to elaborate and relate meaningfully to the First Peoples of Australia.
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Eckerdal, Anna. "Novice Programming Students' Learning of Concepts and Practise." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för teknisk databehandling, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-9551.
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Computer programming is a core area in computer science education that involves practical as well as conceptual learning goals. The literature in programming education reports however that novice students have great problems in their learning. These problems apply to concepts as well as to practise. The empirically based research presented in this thesis contributes to the body of knowledge on students' learning by investigating the relationship between conceptual and practical learning in novice student learning of programming. Previous research in programming education has focused either on students' practical or conceptual learning. The present research indicates however that students' problems with learning to program partly depend on a complex relationship and mutual dependence between the two. The most significant finding is that practise, in terms of activities at different levels of proficiency, and qualitatively different conceptual understandings, have dimensions of variation in common. An analytical model is suggested where the dimensions of variation relate both to concepts and activities. The implications of the model are several. With the dimensions of variation at the center of learning this implies that when students discern a dimension of variation, related conceptual understandings and the meaning embedded in related practises can be discerned. Activities as well as concepts can relate to more than one dimension. Activities at a higher level of proficiency, as well as qualitatively richer understandings of concepts, relate to more dimensions of variation. Concrete examples are given on how variation theory and patterns of variation can be applied in teaching programming. The results can be used by educators to help students discern dimensions of variation, and thus facilitate practical as well as conceptual learning.
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Cherry, Harriet Rose. "Music-a structural way of thinking." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23939.
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Andersson, Eva-Lotte. "Relationen mellan interkulturellt ledarskap och praktisk kunskap." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Lärarutbildningen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-16713.
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My essay is concerned with intercultural leadership and practical knowledge. The essay is about ethical dilemmas and the diversity of issues we face constantly at the preschool. In my story I examine the different views of knowledge and the opportunities to lead people in an intercultural way, and how they relate to each other. I start by looking at the ethical ideas that form the basis for our actions and our view of knowledge. Then, I examine how the practical wisdom guides the ethical dilemmas that arise at the preschool. Thus, that leads me to the different forms of knowledge which are made visible in our daily work at the preschool, how they can be understood in the cultural environment in which they arise, and how they can be related to leadership. I show how the thinking ways and traditions we create shape the leadership. My inquiry is related to my colleagues since my professional role as a preschool teacher is made possible only in a social context with them. I find that the relationship between my own understanding of the practical knowledge and intercultural management can be related to my colleagues, as well as to parents and preschool children. The environment at the preschool is based on different ways of thinking and traditions that are transmitted and transformed in different processes. The inter-cultural leadership is questioned in the working group and the desire for authoritarian leadership is brought to question. Our view of knowledge is dependent on the ethical values we choose to make use of. Knowledge and leadership is created in a process that never ends, together with the people who create and recreate it.
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Shrouder, Annemarie. "Critical, literacy : whose way of thinking is it?" Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/MQ63222.pdf.
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Washevski, Michael A. "Becoming theologians together : a Christian way of thinking /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Eaton, David. "Human and animal : thinking and feeling a way toward liberation." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446624.
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Wigow, Anna. "Andrum : Re-thinking the way we grief in the city." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-171315.
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Villaran-Rokovich, D'juro. "The machine of architecture : a way of thinking, designing and representing." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23920.
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Leung, King-Ho. "Being, living, thinking : metaphysics and philosophy as a way of life." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52574/.
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This thesis examines the relationship between metaphysical theorisation and the practice of philosophy as a way of life. The thesis begins by highlighting the parallels between the Cartesian shift away from the premodern practice of philosophy as a way of life (what Foucault terms ‘the Cartesian moment’) and the ontological suspension of ‘life’ in Descartes’ influential re-conception of the soul as the principle of thinking instead of life and in his mechanistic understanding of living beings as automata. After this, it examines the works of Martin Heidegger, Heidegger’s former students Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben, as well as Gilles Deleuze (and via Deleuze, Henri Bergson) and considers how the metaphysical theoretical conception of ‘being’, ‘living’ and ‘thinking’ informs and affects the practice of philosophy. The thesis concludes with a re-reading of Augustine’s philosophy of life in light of these contemporary philosophical developments. By underscoring the connections between Augustine’s metaphysical conception of God as ‘Life itself’ and his philosophical practice of introspection as notably found in his Confessions—one of the most important texts of Western metaphysics and spiritual practice, this thesis argues that metaphysical theorisation is in fact not incompatible with the premodern practice of philosophy as a way of life or spiritual exercise (as suggested by Foucault and to some extent Heidegger). Instead, Augustine’s Christian appropriation of the Platonic metaphysics of participation in light of his philosophical interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the incarnation not only shows us how speculative metaphysics can provide a powerful theoretical incentive to lead a philosophical life, but also how a ‘religious’ approach to philosophising can help recover the understanding of philosophy as way of life and furthermore reconcile the supposed division between metaphysical theorisation and the practice of philosophy as a way of living.
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Panieri, Carlo, and Kai Grüner. "A way forward - Overcoming the challenges of contemporary Design Thinking research." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för ekonomisk och industriell utveckling, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160240.
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This paper aims to investigate the polarization present within the Design Thinking field ofresearch. Starting off from Johansson-Sköldberg et al. (2013), who first identified the distinctionbetween the two discourses Designerly Thinking and Design Thinking in 2010, we constructed a literature review and a framework of analysis based on conception of knowledge and its relationto the advancement of a research field. We claim that root-causes of the polarization derive from different knowledge bases, which then inhibit knowledge exchange as well as production. We conclude the paper by providing a suggestion for a way forward, claiming the applicability ofEngaged Scholarship within the realm of Design Thinking to make the field of research progresscreating relevance for both practitioners and scholars.
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De, Brigard Felipe Prinz Jesse J. "What was I thinking? an essay on the nature of propositional attitudes /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,931.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 18, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Arts in the Department of Philosophy." Discipline: Philosophy; Department/School: Philosophy.
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Aggesund, Pamela. ""The sustainable development way of implementing circular economy" : A system thinking approach." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Kulturgeografiska institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-156888.
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This study aims to develop an understanding of how circular economy should be implemented to result in sustainable development and to analyze the potential of one particular implementation to result in sustainable development. “The sustainable development way of implementing circular economy” is presented by understanding circular economy with system thinking and considering the factors affecting the implementation of circular economy. Interviews and text-analysis are conducted to analyze the character and potential of ReTuna, a reused items mall in Eskilstuna, to result in sustainable development. Results show circular economy should be implemented as a way of reasoning that can result in a systemic transformation of the economic system to result in eco-centric sustainability. Implementations that do not explicitly derive from a an understanding of circular economy as a new way of reasoning are despite this valuable due to a system’s character of interconnectedness. ReTuna is implemented as a set of practices and an organizational structure but it also demonstrates an honorable effort to change people’s perception of the human-nature relationship. It is concluded that way of implementation has to reflect and be synchronized with the aspiration behind implementing circular economy. ReTuna has potential to result in sustainability but does not yet.
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Mendoza, Waldo. "IS-LM Stability Revisited: Samuelson was Right, Modigliani was Wrong." Economía, 2015. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/116799.
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In Hicks’s IS-LM model, where it is assumed that production is determined in the goods marketand the interest rate is determined in the money market, when the marginal propensity to spend is greater than one, the IS has a positive slope. Modigliani (1944), Varian (1977) and Sargent (1987) determined that in this special case the IS-LM model is stable when the LM slope isgreater than the IS.In line with Samuelson (1941), this article shows that in this case the model is stable when the IS slope is greater than the LM slope. However, in this stable case the model does not have a useful economic meaning.One solution to this theoretical problem is to abandon the Keynesian adjustment mechanism and replace it with the Classical mechanism where the interest rate is determined in the goods market and production is determined in the money market. In this case, the IS-LM model is stable when the LM is steeper than the IS.En el modelo IS-LM de Hicks, en el que se asume que la producción se determina en el mercado de bienes y la tasa de interés en el mercado de dinero, cuando la propensión marginal a gastar es mayor que uno, la IS tiene pendiente positiva. Modigliani (1944), Varian (1977) y Sargent (1987), determinaron que en este caso especial el modelo IS-LM es estable cuando la pendiente de la LM es mayor que la de la IS.En línea con Samuelson (1941), este artículo muestra que en este caso especial el modelo es estable cuando la pendiente de la IS es mayor que la de la LM. Sin embargo, en este caso estable, el modelo no tiene un significado económico útil.Una solución a este problema teórico es abandonar el mecanismo de ajuste keynesiano y reemplazarlo por el mecanismo clásico, donde la tasa de interés se determina en el mercado de bienes y la producción en el mercado de dinero. En este caso el modelo IS-LM es estable cuando la LM es más empinada que la IS.
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Xue, Shuhao. "Saving water without thinking : An innovative way to sustainable daily water use behavior." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE), 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-96672.
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Product design, as an essential way to achieve sustainability, plays an indispensable role in sustainable design. However, the innovation of products often focuses on technical improvement, while ignoring the use phase of the product - which has great potential for reducing the environmental image. Therefore, in this project, the research focuses on exploring the interaction between user and products, and how to guide users to reform existing unsustainable water use behaviors through product design. Affordance theory reveals the subtle interaction between users and objects. It points out that the object itself can guide user's behavior, and applying affordance to product design can free user’s minds from thinking about how to use the product and make the interaction easier and smoother. The "Tel" showerhead is the redesign of an ordinary showerhead. It draws on the way the user interacts with the public telephone, aims to stimulate the user to carry out the behaviors that result from the body memory of using public telephone so that users can naturally turn off the water flow like hanging up the phone. The "Tel" showerhead combines the switch with the showerhead and uses the button on the handle of the showerhead to control the water flow. The action of removing the showerhead from the holder is also the way to turn on the water flow, and when the user puts the shower back in the holder, he or she also unconsciously turns off the water flow at the same time. In this way, “Tel” showerhead can help users to carry out sustainable water use behavior in the shower, that is, to stop the water flow promptly when not in use. A physical prototype is used in this project to test the water-saving performance of the "Tel" showerhead. Participants need to use the provided timer to record the sum time they keep the water flowing in the shower when using the ordinary shower and using the "Tel" showerhead. The test results show that the "Tel" showerhead can effectively reduce water consumption in the shower. However, since the design does not support luxurious bathing habits, and also the prototype cannot reach the ideal level in the concept map, it may reduce the user experience to some extent. The final result of the project proves that affordance product design can help users adopt more sustainable water use behavior. On the other hand, it also raises questions about how to meet sustainability requirements and user experience at the same time.
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Sjöström, Per, and Filip Berggren. "Involvering av icke-funktionella krav i agila utvecklingsprocesser : Gonna change my way of thinking." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informatik och media, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-339974.
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Tidigare forskning indikerar att icke-funktionella krav är åsidosatta i agila utvecklingsprocesser. De involveras sent i projektet eller ad hoc. Detta är negativt då det kan leda till försenad leverans, ökade kostnader och produkter med bristande kvalitet. Inom konsumenthandeln är icke-funktionella domäner såsom användbarhet en tydlig konkurrensfördel. Syftet med denna litteraturgranskning är att undersöka hur icke- funktionella krav kan involveras i kravhanteringsprocessen för agila systemutvecklingsprojekt. Litteraturgranskningen ämnar även att kategorisera de identifierade metoderna. Via sökning i databaserna Web of Science och Scopus fann författarna 152 studier. Efter screening och kvalitetsgranskning inkluderades 19 studier i den slutgiltiga granskningen. Dessa analyserades och kategoriserades efter vilka steg i kravhanteringsprocessen de berörde. Resultatet visade att framför allt insamling av icke- funktionella krav var mer frekvent förekommande i materialet, 11 studier behandlade detta. Validering av krav var minst förekommande, enbart en studie redogjorde för denna del. Mer forskning behövs inom ämnet, framför allt kopplat till utvecklingsprojekt i praktiken.
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Bolus, Oriole Mphumelelo. "Design thinking : shaping the way industrial design business models create, deliver and capture value." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/2462.
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Thesis (MTech (Industrial Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2016.The purpose of this Master’s Thesis is to explore the application of Design Thinking as a valuable resource to any organisation, in this studies case the business model. Furthermore, it seeks to describe how the concept of ‘Design Thinking’ is shaping business models in the context of industrial design. By developing a language for and a description of these intersections and interdisciplinary roles. Consensus regarding the concepts of Design Thinking and the business model still needs development since this emerging area has become more established. An applied contextual research approach inevitably paints a new picture using the concepts and will also develop a language to assist design education, researchers and entrepreneurs in the industrial design praxis. The competitive advantage of any business is now driven even more by the intersection between different fields and disciplines. At this intersection exists the opportunity to understand the relationship between Design Thinking (a methodology that is grounded in industrial design) and the business model (a global concept for the logic of business) to help decision makers develop more sustainable pathways for design entrepreneurship. This research also addresses aspects of the changing role of industrial design and devotes the findings to the creative industries in South Africa. The research was conducted using a qualitative methodology, taking an applied context case study approach. Data were gathered from industry experts and three core cases: Thingking (design-maker consultants), Research Unit (a leather and luxury apparel company) and Nomanini, (provider of mobile solutions in the electronic domain).
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GLOAGUEN, Yola. "TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF ANTONIN RAYMOND'S "ARCHITECTURAL IDENTITY" : A STUDY BASED ON THE ARCHITECT'S WAY OF THINKING AND WAY OF DESIGN." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/57260.
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This thesis presents a study on the way of thinking and way of design of the Czech born architect Antonin Raymond (1888-1976). The data used for this study was a series of lectures and articles written by Raymond between 1935 and 1967 and original architectural drawings and photographs. These documents were all collected personally by the author at Raymond’s former studio in Karuizawa and Architectural Office in Tokyo. These documents provide a new source of information on Raymond’s residential work and have been compiled in an electronic database available with the thesis. The database includes architectural drawings, original and contemporary photographs, and general information on a majority of the residential works designed by Raymond between 1920 and 1938. The aim of this thesis is to answer the following question: what is the core quality or concept that identifies a work of architecture as Raymond’s? In order to answer this question, the thesis presents a study on the identity of Antonin Raymond as an architect, which the author has chosen to refer to as “Architectural Identity”. The essential quality of Raymond’s “Architectural Identity” is defined through the study of the architect’s way of thinking, way of design, and the relationship between the two. These three elements are considered by the author as the three components of “Architectural Identity”. For the study of Raymond’s way of design, the thesis focuses on one residential project, which is Raymond’s own summer house, built in Karuizawa in 1933.Kyoto University (京都大学)
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新制・課程博士
博士(工学)
甲第13809号
工博第2913号
新制||工||1430(附属図書館)
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UT51-2008-C725
京都大学大学院工学研究科建築学専攻
(主査)教授 髙松 伸, 教授 前田 忠直, 教授 門内 輝行
学位規則第4条第1項該当
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Viard, Antoine. "Production improvement in a traditional small scale company." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för innovation, design och teknik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-20863.
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Nowadays business atmosphere is to constantly come up with new improvements, in order to become more competitive, or simply stay competitive.Lean manufacturing rose up few decades ago and is now famous for its radical improvements but also for its difficulty to implement. The aim of this study is to get a better understanding of how can Lean bring such important changes, but also what must be done in order to implement it.In order to solve the problem of this report, it was decided to conduct a quantitative research relying on a case study. The company chosen wants to implement Lean but does not really know how to achieve it, so it is a very good opportunity for this project to collaborate with it and see what can be done to implement Lean manufacturing.The results of this thesis demonstrate the need of implementing a philosophy, a way of thinking, rather than different production tools. People must also be prepared for long implementation, which can take between 5 to 10 years. One of the key factors for this implementation is the involvement and empowerment of workers, who will massively contribute to the change process by removing different kind of waste which slow down the processes.
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Quinn, Lynn, and Jo-Anne Vorster. "Isn’t it time to start thinking about ‘developing’ academic developers in a more systematic way?" Routledge, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/66546.
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publisher versionThere is no defined route to becoming an academic developer. The research on pathways into the field (e.g. Kensington-Miller, Brailsford, and Gossman, 2012; McDonald, 2010; McDonald and Stockley, 2008) shows that in most cases ‘serendipity and chance played a role’ (McDonald, 2010, p. 40). Moreover, induction into academic development (AD) is often ad hoc, haphazard, and informal. Due to the changing higher education (HE) context, the field has grown exponentially and in many countries now plays a central role in institutions. This has generated increased demand for knowledgeable and competent developers that are able to contribute towards solving some vexing problems in contemporary HE. Current recruitment and induction processes of new developers do not necessarily meet this demand. In light of the above, we pose the question: given the changing context of HE and the field of AD, is it not time for us to induct newcomers into the field more systematically? As Kensington-Miller et al. (2012) suggest, we should not leave the induction of the next generation of developers to chance. We suggest that one way of ensuring appropriate induction is through a formal course for developers. Difficulties for newcomers to the field are illustrated by Kensington-Miller et al. (2012) when they report seeking ‘top tips’ at a HERDSA conference. We do not dismiss informal learning at conferences or the role of mentoring, coaching, apprenticeship, and so on, in inducting developers, nor do we minimise the benefits of relatively structured processes such as fellowship programmes, workshops, and postgraduate qualifications in related fields. However, these ways of induction may not offer novices the structured and systematic developmental opportunities needed to become developers able to fulfil varied, complex, and sometimes contradictory roles.
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Lebon, Cristelle. "Des formes de symbolisation primaire en thérapie familiale psychanalytique : signifiants formels et pictogrammes, organisateurs psychiques inconscients du néo-groupe." Thesis, Lyon, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019LYSE2088.
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La recherche présentée dans cette thèse se centre sur les formes de symbolisation primaire en thérapie familiale psychanalytique (TFP). Par l’analyse de signes cliniques n’émargeant pas seulement aux registres du primaire et du secondaire, mais aussi à celui de l’archaïque, elle considère leur valeur narrative, à partir d’un ensemble de supports cliniques observables : le corps, l’acte, le langage verbal, l’utilisation de médiations (dessin et pâte à modeler) ; mais aussi, du côté des thérapeutes, les formes telles que sensations, sentiments, actes, rêves, et pensées. Le positionnement théorico-clinique est centré sur le néo-groupe, intégrant l’effet de la rencontre entre les psychés des sujets de la famille et des thérapeutes, et les enjeux de la dynamique groupale, dans l’analyse du processus thérapeutique. Si les supports langagiers sont pluriformes et plurisubjectifs, l’objet de recherche reste la logique formelle et archaïque présidant à leur émergence : est discuté le statut symbolisant et messager, de signes cliniques approchés comme des formes de symbolisation primaire.L’exploration de la littérature psychanalytique se fait dans une triple orientation : autour des concepts progressivement théorisés, relatifs aux processus de la symbolisation primaire ; puis, les théories groupales sont revisitées, à la lumière de ces concepts ; enfin, les fondements de la TFP et leurs prolongements contemporains sont questionnés, dans leur capacité à prendre en compte l’existence de processus de symbolisation primaire en TFP.Trois situations cliniques de TFP servent de supports à l’analyse des processus en jeu dans l’émergence des formes de symbolisation primaire ; un outil clinique d’évaluation qualitative des processus de symbolisation primaire en TFP est conçu et remanié en cours de recherche. Trois hypothèses de recherche sont travaillées. Dans la première, une méthodologie d’écoute spécifique du matériel verbal, en séance de TFP, est proposée ; s’appuyant sur la double qualité du discours, à la fois forme et contenu, elle permet d’évaluer l’état des processus représentationnels du néo-groupe. Dans la deuxième, est conçue la modélisation d’une méthodologie de repérage et d’analyse de signifiants formels, dansdifférentes formes cliniques du matériel. Le repérage de signifiants formels multiformes conduit à montrer l’existence d’organisateurs psychiques inconscients du néo-groupe, relevant du registre archaïque : des signifiants formels et des pictogrammes. Est questionnée la nature de l’expérience archaïque « en train de se raconter », à partir de ce langage ne relevant ni des fantasmes inconscients ni des pensées préconscientes. Enfin, deux formes de symbolisation primaire spécifiques sont conceptualisées : l’émergence, dans le néo-groupe, d’un « souvenir hybride », tentant de représenter uneexpérience traumatique, par un récit mélangeant les registres archaïque, primaire et secondaire ; l’avènement de moments de « rupture climatique dans le transfert », approchés comme réactivations hallucinatoires groupales de traces perceptives d’expériences traumatiques. Trois ouvertures pluridisciplinaires permettent de mettre les résultats de la recherche à l’épreuve d’autres champs théoriques : celui des recherches neuroscientifiques autour de l’inscription mnésique, et, dans le domaine artistique, ceux de la littérature et du cinémaThe research presented in this thesis focuses on the forms of primary symbolisation in psychoanalytical family therapy (PFT). Clinical signs emanating not only on primary and secondary levels, but also on an archaic level are analysed and considered according to their narrative value. These are taken into account through clinical observations of: the body, actions, language and the use of tools and intermediary objects (such as drawing, playdoh) as well as sensations, dreams, feelings, or thoughts experienced by the therapists. The clinical and theoretical framework focuses on the neo-group in theanalysis of the therapeutic process. This is influenced by the interplay between the state of mind of members of the families, that of the therapists, as well as group dynamics. The main theme of this research is on the archaic and formal logic resulting from the multiplicity and the subjectivity of different forms of expression and communication. In taking into account clinical signs as forms of primary symbolisation, it is possible to take into account their symbolic and communicative status.Psychoanalytical theory and concepts are explored and focused in three main areas: concepts developed and defined as primary symbolisation; in the light of these processes, the theorisation of group dynamics is revisited. Finally, the oundations of psychoanalytical family therapy and its contemporary counterparts are assessed and shown to underline the existence of the process of primary symbolisation in PFT.In order to illustrate the analysis of the processes at play during the formation of primary symbolisation, three clinical vignettes of PFT are presented. To enable this clinical research, evidence was conceived, applied and revised so as to qualitatively evaluate the process of primary symbolisation in PFT. Three hypothesis are identified and developed. In the first hypothesis, a specific method of listening to the verbal content present in a session of PFT is construed. It is applied through an emphasis on two simultaneous aspects of the discourse, the form and the content. This approach helps to identify howand to what extent the neo-group is organized in its representational capacities. In the second hypothesis, an assessment model is created allowing for the identification and analysis of « formal signifiers » present in various forms within clinical material. The identification of multifaceted « formal signifiers » confirms that the presence of unconscious mental organizers within the neo-group are in place on an archaic level: viz., in « formal signifiers » and « pictograms ». A fundamental question remains - what is the content of the unfolding archaic experience being expressed verbally? They cannot be identified as either unconscious phantasies nor as preconscious thoughts. Lastly, a definition of two specific formsof primary symbolisation are given. The appearance of a hybrid memory within the neo-group. This can be seen as an attempt to represent a traumatic experience combining three different forms of expression – archaic, primary and secondary. Experiences within the group dynamics of « climatic change in the transference » which can be assessed as the reactivation in hallucinatory forms of perceptive traces linked to traumatic experiences.Three pluri-disciplinary openings allow the results of the research to be linked to other theoretical fields, such as neurosciences linked to mnesic inscription and in the artistic of areas, such as literature and cinema
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Goldstein, Daniel M. (Daniel Michael). "Medicine as practical wisdom : an old foundation for a new way of thinking in biomedical ethics." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=22372.
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This inquiry suggests a new epistemological foundation for understanding and discernment in biomedical ethics. This foundation, based on Aristotle's phronesis or practical wisdom, contains elements of the lived human experience which are seen as essential aspects of ethical, as well as medical, deliberation. The Aristotelian intellectual virtues of theoria and phronesis, used as "ideal types" of rationality, provide epistemological prejudices that structure two distinct ways of thinking. With this distinction, an alternative to certain dominant trends within biomedical ethics arises as phronesis provides more human centered prejudices for understanding. In conclusion, we shall see, using the doctrine of informed consent, that a phronetic rationality allows different, more humane meanings to come into being. Phronesis, it will be argued, provides a mode of rationality which promotes compassion and engagement in both ethics and medicine and consequently, is the more appropriate way of thinking in these important human practices.
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Jacquet, Benoit. "Principles of monumentality in Tange Kenzo's way of thinking : study of the architectural discourse in early works." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/144002.
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Sushkov, Sergei N. "Being and creation in the theology of John Scottus Eriugena : an approach to a new way of thinking." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2015. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/7070/.
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The work aims to demonstrate that at the heart of Eriugena’s approach to Christian theology there lies a profoundly philosophical interest in the necessity of a cardinal shift in the paradigms of thinking – namely, that from the metaphysical to the dialectical one, which wins him a reputation of the ‘Hegel of the ninth century,’ as scholars in Post-Hegelian Germany called him. The prime concern of Eriugena’s discourse is to prove that the actual adoption of the salvific truth of Christ’s revelation about all humans’ Sonship to God (resulting in their return to union with Him) directly depends on the way the truth of God’s Oneness is consistently thought of. It is exactly the dialectic of the universal and particular which allows Eriugena both to tackle the dichotomy between being and non-being (called by him the fundamental division) and to proceed towards raising a question how the totality of God’s being can be approached so as to let him radically reconsider a predominantly metaphysical view of creation the theological reflection traditionally relies on. According to the dialectical understanding of unity (with a strong appeal to a dialectically coherent treatment of contradiction) that Eriugena does adhere to, the reality of creation cannot be thought of, and therefore known, otherwise than in the way of being inseparable from the universal Principle of all. This is the Principle abandoned by nothing, unless the mind corrupted by the senses thinks otherwise and, following the metaphysical pattern of dichotomy (as that of the fundamental division), improperly sets the creation and its Principle apart. Restoration of the mind to the proper rational motion of recta ratio (right reason) freed, as Eriugena argues, from the dictates of senses therefore becomes the way of both the epistemological breakthrough to the infinite whole and practical return (reditus) from the world of finite things (the corrupt mind’s construct) to living in the divine reality of creation. The work’s argument is based on the assumption of close affinity between Eriugena’s discourse and that of his Islamic contemporaries (Allaf, al-Nazzam, al-Kindi, and others), who developed their dialectical ideas within the Mu’tazilah tradition of a philosophically disciplined approach to the truth of God’s Oneness. In particular, al-Nazzam’s engagement with Parmenides’ Periphyseon and his resistance to the danger of a dualistic interpretation of its ontology seem to provoke Eriugena’s innovative approach to Christian theology with a view to suggesting a mode of overcoming dualism as the main obstacle on the way to the Truth revealed. This vision of the meaning of Eriugena’s undertaking allows us not only to better understand the novelty of his approach to Christian theology, but also reconsider some of the key points of his discourse that seem to have become a sort of commonplace in Eriugenian studies: 1. Unlike the prevalent opinion, not the forms of the division of Nature but the modes of interpreting being and non-being are to be understood to constitute the genuine subject-matter of each book of the Periphyseon and, hence, of the five parts of his system. 2. The fourfold division of Nature is to be interpreted not as a basic structure of the system offered by Eriugena, but as a means of introducing dialectic to the body of theology by refuting Augustine’s metaphysical vision of a hierarchical model of the universe and indicating the way of resolution of the cardinally theological contradiction – God does and does not create at the same time. 3. All this gives reason to disagree with a general tendency of associating Eriugena’s work with exploration of the division of God’s Nature and to reinterpret it as an immense anti-division project to be understood as an important turn in the history of Christian thought entirely focused on the truth of God’s Oneness and human life in conformity to it. *** I affirm that this thesis is entirely my own work and has not been submitted for examination in any form elsewhere.
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LIU, JUN. "Precision Marketing Management : probe into way of existence of chinese small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) by analyzing parker hannifin (china)." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för ekonomi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-10532.
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Purpose/Research questions Aiming at the problem that the management efficiency of many Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises is generally low, the paper is to find the method in the aspect of marketing management to improve the management for the enterprise to meet challenges of globale market competition. According to the thoughts of Kotler(2006, p814), the future marketing shall be in a direction towards holistic marketing from marketing department . The paper discusses whether it is feasible for the Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises to use the precision marketing management method to optimize and integrate the resources and improve enterprises’ capacity. Research design/methodology/Approach The paper discusses the feasibility of the research subject through combination of theoretical research and case discussion. Analyze and discuss on experience of Parker Hannifin(China) to summarize ideas and implementation methods of precision marketing management to provide reference to the management of Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises. Findings Through the analysis and discussion on Parker Hannifin(China) and combination of marketing theory and value chains theory, I find that lean thinking may help the small and medium-sized enterprises inChinato utilize the limited resources in a reasonable way and improve enterprise capacity. Research limitations/implications Starting with marketing management, the paper discusses how to improve the efficiency of value delivery and thus win advantage through changing the extensive management method of enterprises. However, the small and medium-sized enterprises inChinastill have the problems such as brand resources and technological resources, etc., therefore, precision marketing can not generally improve the enterprises’ comprehensive competitive capability. Several competition methods, such as technique introduction, strategy alliance and so on are still needed to improve the enterprise’ comprehensive competitive capability, only in this way can the enterprises may win in the competition. Originality/value of the research Different from other papers, the paper, in the light of the characters of Chinese existing small and medium-sized enterprises, mainly discusses the application of precision marketing management of small and medium-sized enterprises adopting extensive management. Therefore, it has the particularity in marketing cultural environment, such as Chinese policy and customers' preference; its application shall be more specific, and has stronger pertinence.
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Zhao, Ming. "La différence des stratégies ou la différence de l'axiologie : une exploration de la pensée de François Jullien." Phd thesis, Université Michel de Montaigne - Bordeaux III, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00802962.
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Cette thèse a pour objectif essentiel de contribuer à l'exploration de la pensée de François Jullien en sinologie. Notre étude s'est concentrée sur sa théorie du détour dans l'application de deux grands domaines que sont le domaine temporel et moral (l'efficacité, les notions de création et de transformation, le temps, la morale) et le domaine poétique (l'esthétique et la langue). Ce que nous avons l'intention de montrer, à travers la pensée de François Jullien, c'est que la finalité sur laquelle reposent nos stratégies choisies est inévitablement influencée par une notion importante, soit l'axiologie comme présupposé, c'est une idée qui n'est pas suffisamment développée par François Jullien dans ses œuvres. afin d'élucider les rapports entre les phénomènes culturels et les valeurs, nous allons citer beaucoup d'exemples, soit historique, soit littéraire, soit social, afin de compléter la pensée de François Jullien ; deuxièmement, face à l'éloge de François Jullien envers la culture chinoise, nous pourrons la réexaminer par rapport à la culture occidentale, ce qui constitue un travail inverse par rapport à celui de Jullien ; troisièmement, les insuffisances de sa pensée sont également prise en compte, étant donné qu'elle s'articule autour des anciennes époques, c'est-à-dire autour de l'époque grecque et celle de la chine impériale, ce qui ne permet pas aux occidentaux de connaître la chine actuelle.
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Fensby-Bocquet, Adèle. "What is the "true" political way of thinking?:A comparative analysis of Åsa Wikforss' and Hannah Arendt's problematization of truth." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-373648.
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Bourbon, Amy Victoria. "Towards a new way of thinking in painting through the application of analogous notions of listening and analysis in acousmatic music." Thesis, Birmingham City University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.639727.
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This thesis offers an interrogation of specific terms within Acousmatic Music leading to the redefinition and application of analogous notions within listening, viewing, creation and analysis. These analogies between disciplines refer to comparable ideas within creative practices, transferring and adapting terminologies from one discipline to reinforce the creation and analysis of my own painting practice. As such the ideas are similar, comparable or equivalent but the terms introduced from Acousmatic Music theory are placed in the altered painting context. The analogies involve production similarities including comparable application of source collection, gesture making and manipulation of materials in both disciplines. Further analogies include corresponding use of levels of reduction within creative practices and parallels between listening and viewing. The central modes of thinking invoked are adapted from Acousmatic Music, namely Modes of Listening, Spectromorphology and Surrogacy. These core ideas will be interrogated before adaptation and analysis within my painting practice. My central contribution is identified through my own painting practice, with the newly applied theory proving to be useful throughout the advancement of my practical research. The potential for a wider contribution to knowledge will be pursued as a result of the research within this thesis. My focal methodology involves the employment of terminology transferred from its original context. The research developed in stages: identifying and interrogating the relevant terminology, adapting the terminology for transference into my painting practice, testing the newly applied terminologies through my practice and reflecting upon the practical developments in turn informing the written thesis and reinforcing my research project. The newly developing theoretical knowledge informed my evolving practical work, which in turn fed into the understanding of the theory and the contribution to knowledge. This methodology was at the forefront throughout my research, constantly developing my knowledge and advancing my practice. My practice involves painting that incorporates source identification and remoteness, focussing on the identification of a process of reduction within the work. This investigation informs the creation of a redefined understanding of painting with an emphasis on applied energy, gesture and movement. Alongside this part of the thesis and integral to my contribution to knowledge is a body of artwork that stands alone as a self-contained exhibition, but that also responds to my theoretical developments concerning the creation and viewing of paintings. There are three points of focus within my thesis with regard to my painting practice, namely the development of Modes of Viewing, Spectromorphological Thinking and Surrogate Orders. The collated research is employed within a case study of my painting ‘Renouvellement’, demonstrating the integration of my newly defined modes of thinking within the critique of my own practice. The study tested and evaluated the effectiveness of my research showing the practical application of the terminology and reinforcing my contribution to knowledge. A more thorough consideration of my creative methodology is provided through a text included in Appendix H entitled ‘Practice Methodology’. This text outlines the development of my practical work from initial planning stages through to completion. I have set in place an organised methodology for painting discussion and for practical application within the painting process, fulfilling my intention to develop a concise structural foundation for the development of painting knowledge both for the artist and the audience.
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Spencer, Beth University of Ballarat. "The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking: On Writing A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/12813.
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This thesis uses fiction as a research technology for investigating and thinking about issues to do with bodies and knowledge at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes sample material from a novel in progress -- A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents -- to illustrate some of the unique outcomes of this approach to exploring cultural history and writing cultural criticism. One of the advantages of fiction is that it allows me to create a discursive field in which it is possible for the very wide range of issues raised by my topic to coexist, work off each other and cross-fertilise. These include ideas regarding gender, sexuality, nurture and subjectivity; issues to do with the implants controversy, the cancer industry and the corporatisation of medicine (and hence various current debates within science and medicine); as well as movements in fashion history and popular culture -- all of which contribute to making up the datasphere in which and through which we continually reproduce ourselves as subjects. [...]Doctor of Philosophy
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Spencer, Beth. "The Body as Fiction / Fiction as a Way of Thinking: On Writing A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents." University of Ballarat, 2006. http://archimedes.ballarat.edu.au:8080/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/15469.
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This thesis uses fiction as a research technology for investigating and thinking about issues to do with bodies and knowledge at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries. It includes sample material from a novel in progress -- A Short (Personal) History of the Bra and its Contents -- to illustrate some of the unique outcomes of this approach to exploring cultural history and writing cultural criticism. One of the advantages of fiction is that it allows me to create a discursive field in which it is possible for the very wide range of issues raised by my topic to coexist, work off each other and cross-fertilise. These include ideas regarding gender, sexuality, nurture and subjectivity; issues to do with the implants controversy, the cancer industry and the corporatisation of medicine (and hence various current debates within science and medicine); as well as movements in fashion history and popular culture -- all of which contribute to making up the datasphere in which and through which we continually reproduce ourselves as subjects. [...]Doctor of Philosophy