Deep Thinking Research Articles

Knowledge alone won’t “fix it”: building regenerative literacy

In the face of multiple crises, there is a pressing need to increase knowledge, skills and commitment to sustainability and climate action both amongst tourism practitioners and academics. There is an opportunity to deepen the concept of literacy in ways that not only capture operational aspects of tourism and carbon, but also embrace cultural and contextual knowledge and practices, so that the host-guest relationship is mutually enriching and contributes to regenerating destinations. This conceptual paper proposes a pathway that moves beyond building domain-specific carbon literacy to growing “Green Service Literacy” and ultimately “Regenerative Literacy.” The vision of Regenerative Literacy connects to deep ecology thinking and decade-long efforts such as those proffered in the Earth Charter. Ultimately, it seeks to (re-)align our lifestyles with nature and ensure the human footprint remains within planetary boundaries. Changes across the tourism system are recommended to enable this transformation.

ИСТОРИЯ КАФЕДРЫ ПРОПЕДЕВТИКИ ВНУТРЕННЕЙ МЕДИЦИНЫ МЕДИЦИНСКОЙ АКАДЕМИИ ИМЕНИ С.И. ГЕОРГИЕВСКОГО ОТ ОСНОВАНИЯ ДО НАШИХ ДНЕЙ

History of the Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine Department of the Medical Academy named after S. I. Georgievsky reflects the history of the university, region, country in different historical eras. Crimean Medical Institute named after I. V. Stalin was founded in 1931, and already in 1934 the department of propaedeutics of internal medicine was created. The founder of this trend in the Crimea is rightfully considered Batinkov E. L. The therapeutic school he created exists and is developing to this day. During the existence of the department, prominent figures in the medical science of Crimea worked at it: Shakhnazarov A. B., Lukash N. V., Krutikov S. N. It is impossible to imagine the training of students at any medical university without studying the propaedeutics of internal diseases, which collects fundamental knowledge together and lays the foundation for the deep clinical thinking of the future doctor. The Department of Propaedeutics of Internal Medicine has been of great importance in the structure of higher medical education and the upbringing of medical personnel of Crimea since its foundation.

Profiling El Vez, The Mexican Elvis: A Dramaturgical Methodology to «Make the Dream Real»

This article discusses the critical practice the author uses in her writing about El Vez, The Mexican Elvis. After offering a brief introduction to El Vez, to the artist Robert Lopez who created him, and to the relationship between them and the icon of Elvis, the author presents the aims of Make the Dream Real, the monograph she is drafting about El Vez/Lopez, to consider how it draws on biographical writing and yet departs from it. The author argues for a dramaturgical methodology and its inherent critical proximity as a means of writing an analytical, contextualized, engaging analysis of an artist and entertainer. The dramaturgical methodology, built on dramaturgical thinking, values flexibility, using a variety of research practices combined with vibrant autoethnographic writing to offer vivid analysis that conveys the intellectual, emotional, and somatic experience of attending a live El Vez performance. The article discusses the value of deep dramaturgical thinking and critical proximity that opens up primary sources and archives through an extended dialogue with the artist built on mutual trust and respect.

ZARATHUSTRA'S PLACE IN WORLD CULTURE

The article reveals the essence of personality of one of the greatest creators of cultural creation, the founder of the ancient religious system Zarathustra and reveals significance of his ideas in the culture of mankind. The purpose of the study: to show the place of Zarathustra in history and culture, his influence on the development of mankind and formation of world religions. His teaching is one of the oldest examples of deep thinking and wisdom. The teachings of Zarathustra were formed on the basis of the spiritual values of the ancient nomadic civilization, on the basis of legends and epics of the ancient steppe nomadic society. This can be traced in the writings of the Avesta (Gat). Zarathustra sought to enrich society with new values, but his teaching was not recognized by society. Not finding support in their own environment, the teachings of Zarathustra spread throughout the world through Afghanistan, Iran and other countries. His religious, ethical, philosophical and other spiritual values became one of the sources of steppe wisdom. The spiritual values of Zarathustra enrich world culture with the wise melodies of the steppes, and his steppe hymns had a profound influence on the formation of the worldview of Greek and other ancient thinkers. The wisdom of Zarathustra is reflected in the works of F. Nietzsche (“Thus Said Zarathustra”) and others.

Developing ‘deep mathematical thinking’ in geometry with 3- and 4-year-olds: a collaborative study between early years teachers and university-based mathematicians

ABSTRACT Mathematics in early years settings is often restricted to learning to count and identifying simple shapes. This is partly due to the narrow scope of many early years curricula and insufficient teacher training for exploring deeper mathematical concepts. We note that geometry is an area particularly neglected. In an innovative year-long project, a group of university-based mathematicians and early years teachers collaborated on a child-led exploration of ‘patterns in nature.’ The early years teachers ran the project within the setting, meeting regularly with the mathematicians to discuss potential areas of interest, and to highlight the children’s mathematical thinking. We found that, with the appropriate environment and guidance, the children naturally displayed deep levels of geometrical thinking and found enjoyment and satisfaction in the exploration of mathematical ideas. We define what we mean by the term ‘deep geometrical thinking’ and demonstrate this by looking at three excerpts through the lens of the van Hiele levels of geometric thought, finding that the children are capable of exhibiting thought at level 3 (abstraction), more advanced than previously thought of children of this age. Using a second taxonomy we also assess the range of skills across which they are demonstrating such geometric thought.

The Aim of Higher Education

The aim of higher education is to nurture higher order thinking. College students attain mastery by acquiring expert ways of thinking. Learning is reflecting. Teachers should aim to stimulate curiosity and a desire to learn. A teacher’s enthusiasm drives learning. Teaching should not cover all topics in the curriculum as this is based on a misperception of the teacher’s role. Teaching is inspiring. Learning during higher education ought to extend beyond discipline-specific expertise to include four higher-order competencies: liberated learning, deep thinking, clear communication, and focused resilience. These in turn, are based on five core skills, namely, writing, numeracy, financial acumen, computing expertise, and design skills. Operationalization of these aims can be achieved via careful course planning, matching assessment to learning goals, and teaching strategies such as Lecture Plus. Lecture Plusis a lecture followed by a learning activity. Learning activities include small-group exercises. Course planning should aim for higher order thinking. Keywords: Education, Graduate; Education, Professional; Teaching Methods

The achievement of rhetoric among fifth_grade literary students and the develoment of their contemplative Thinkig

The current research aims to know the effect of the question circles strategy on the achievement of rhetoric among fifth-grade literary students and the development of their contemplative thinking. Its sample consists of two experimental and control groups of (60) students, with (30) students in the experimental group and (30) in the control group. The researcher has two research tools: an achievement test for rhetoric subject of the type (multiple-choice) with four alternatives, and he has specified its paragraphs with forty items, and its validity, stability and psychometric properties have been verified. The second tool that is represented by the deep thinking consists of (30) items that are characterized by validity and stability and discrimination power. The researcher has applied statistical methods such as Pearson's t test and t-test for two independent samples, as well as, Alfa, Kronbach and the Statistical Package Program (SPSS) for the social sciences and has reached the following results: 1- There is a statistically significant difference between the averages in favor of the students of the experimental group who have studied rhetoric using the question circles strategy over the students of the control group who have studied the subject according to the usual method. 2- There is a statistically significant difference between the students of the experimental group and the students of the control group in developing reflective thinking and in favor of the experimental group. The researcher has reached a set of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions.

Dialogic Learning as a Strategy for Reflection and Development of Communication in Initial Teacher Training

The dialogical literary gatherings are a methodological strategy that can enrich teacher training as they promote deep reading, thinking and communication among students. This paper aims to explore the perceptions the use of the dialogical literary gatherings as a strategy that favors communication and reflection in Higher Education students. The results show high benefits about the dialogical literary gatherings after having experienced its development in the university context, that are useful to develop communicative skills in educational contexts as teachers and education professionals and, specially, to teacher education in Early Childhood Education. After completing this experience, it is possible to conclude that the students’ communicative competence has improved, and other abilities linked to the thinking process, such as reflection and metacognition, have been fostered, improving the practical skills of the teacher in training and, in addition, allowing him/her to overcome the training scenario in which he/she finds him/herself to prepare his/her work as a communicator and researcher- reflexive teacher of his/her educational practice.

E-Learning Platform

Internet technologies enable us to rethink traditional teaching approaches, which opens the floodgates to educational innovation. The Asynchronous Learning Networks Participatory Examination (APE) approach utilizing Internet technologies to actively engage students online in the entire exam life cycle, which includes letting them create, answer, grade, and dispute exam questions. Our framework allows instructors to become mentors or facilitators instead of the dominant center of attention, as in a traditional class. This process, in turn, could empower students with deep or higher-order thinking and learning processes.

Study on the Causes and Influence of New Marxism in Eastern Europe from a Humanitarian Perspective

New Marxism in Eastern Europe, as an important part of the development of Marxism, has rich theoretical connotation, and its emergence also has a unique social and cultural background. This paper mainly analyzes the causes of the emergence of neo-Marxism in Eastern Europe from the humanitarian perspective. The formation and development of new Marxism in Eastern Europe is rooted in the theoretical cornerstone of Marxism at the level of ideological origin, and its ideological and theoretical basis is the reinterpretation of the humanitarian concept in traditional Marxism. It also accepted the influence of contemporary Western European modern ideological trend and Western European neo-Marxism, which promoted the deep humanitarian thinking in Eastern European neo-Marxism. At the same time, the special meaning of the new Marxism in Eastern Europe lies in that it was formed in socialism, and it was a new Marxism that introspected and criticized the socialist construction mode at that time. It is also a neo-Marxism that absorbs the national spirits of different countries in Eastern Europe and is highly localized, showing different specific contents in different countries. Neo-Marxism in Eastern Europe is a philosophical system produced under the unique social background, in which the humanitarianism thought has promoted the development of Marxist thought, and made Marxism integrate with modern society. The criticism of the Soviet model also impacted the rigid system at that time, and after it was introduced into China, it also played a positive role in emancipating the mind of our ideological and literary circles in the new period.

International Relations in the Anthropocene

International Relations in the Anthropocene

Biographical and Cultural Elements in S.R.G. Sundaram’s Short Stories

Culture is the one that interacts with the lives of living people from ancient times to the present day and from time to time. S.R.G. Sundaram, who is awarded with ‘Bharathi Paniselvar’, is a multifaceted literary creator. Our Tamil world is well aware of his contribution to the development of Tamil. Like Valliyappa, he is also a prolific writer, who has made significant contributions in the form of short stories, plays, novels, songs, essays, and short stories for children. S.R.G. Sundaram has been doing his work since the age of seventeen (since 1957) and still does it today with deep knowledge and creative thinking. In his short stories, many cultural elements are found, such as love, rationality, hospitality, friendship, loneliness, love for life, diligence, punctuality, and patriotism. The purpose of this study is to explore and sort them out.

The Perception of Teaching, Learning Styles and Commitment to Learning and Their Influence on the Practice of Physical Activity and Eating Habits Related to the Mediterranean Diet in Physical Education Students.

Childhood obesity, linked to a sedentary lifestyle and an unbalanced diet, is one of the main problems in today’s Western societies. In this sense, the aim of the study was to analyze students’ perceived satisfaction in physical education classes with learning strategies and engagement in learning and critical thinking as determinants of healthy lifestyle habits. The study involved 2,439 high school students aged 12–18 years (M = 14.66, SD = 1.78). Structural equation modeling was conducted to analyze the predictive relationships between the study variables. The results showed that teaching, teaching mastery, and cognitive development are precursors to deep thinking on the part of students, indicators of the adoption of healthy lifestyle habits. These results reflect the importance of the methodology adopted by the teacher in order to positively influence the students’ habits.

The Observed Impact – Implementing Inquiry – Based Learning at a Calculus Class

<p style="text-align:justify">This study investigated how implementing inquiry-based learning (IBL) can be an effective tool for an instructor to conduct rich formative assessment. Many researchers have documented that IBL promotes active learning from students’ learning perspective. However, little research examines how IBL affects instructors’ teaching practice from teaching perspective. Based on the data collected from a Calculus II class, the author discussed how the structure of IBL class produced rigorous on-going formative assessment during classroom teaching from the three aspects: helping the instructor “see” student thinking; helping the instructor “see” the level of student understanding; helping the instructor catch teachable moments. The rigorous on-going formative assessment, in turn, helped change student classroom behaviors in terms of asking more questions, showing deep thinking, and gaining confidence.</p>

공감과 이해의 확장을 위한 ‘깊이 읽기’ 방법 연구

This study is the reading method of ‘Deep Reading’ to expand the empathy and Thinking learners experience in reading activities. To this end, some of the content systems and achievement standards of ‘Reading’ and ‘Literature’ in the revised curriculum in 2015 were examined. As a result of examining the core concepts and reading activities according to general knowledge and functions in the teaching and learning of the revised curriculum, it was confirmed that learners’ understanding and empathy were composed of basic elements. Accordingly, the theory of reading methods according to Adler and Van Doren’s reading level was analyzed, and the analytical reading methods for expanding understanding and Harvey and Goudvis’s ‘STR’ reading strategy, which actually applied their theories, were reviewed. Based on this, a plan to apply it to classes as a reading method for expanding understanding in the school was suggested. These research results will help learners grow as active readers who experience deep thinking, interpreting and constructing meaning further at the level of reading only texts.

Strategies for Improving the Teaching Quality in Middle Schools Under the Double Reduction Policy

The meaning of the term “reduction” in Double Reduction Policy implores teachers to reflect on their teaching process and improve teaching efficiency. Not only should the quantity be reduced, but so should the behavior. Having a comprehensive understanding of the students’ learning process is actually a form of science. Therefore, we need to study and enhance its development [1]. In order to reduce the learning burden and increase the efficiency of classroom teaching, we must clearly identify the inefficient and ineffective behaviors in classroom teaching, so as to avoid the following situations: a lack of deep thinking, a lack of ability in lesson preparation, fragmentation of questions and answers, a lack of questions that highlight the key points, anticlimax teaching process, and the habit of running over time in class [2,3]. On this basis, this paper elaborates the current education state and clarifies the basic requirements of effective classroom teaching. Meanwhile, to reduce students’ workload and increase the efficiency in carrying out assignments, much attention should be paid to optimizing assignment design and refining homework review and feedback. The purpose is to assign homework with an appropriate amount (achievable), precision (targeted), and suitability (personalized). Putting an end to the repetitious and unified training is not enough to improve the effect.

Vaccination in the 19th century in Italy and the role of the catholic church in public health: a historical overview.

SummaryUsing the case of the vaccine against smallpox as an example, this article explores how the attitude and the politics of the Vatican State towards vaccination changed between the 18th and 19th century.Despite some notable exceptions, the Catholic Church became progressively involved in supporting vaccination in Italy, exerting its temporal and spiritual authority to develop healthcare policies and to convince a population that still considered the vaccine as potentially harmful.The brief historical overview on vaccine and vaccination shows that during the XIX century the Catholic church and in particular, the political decision of the Pope, engaged temporal and spiritual power, high authority and persuasive influence to encourage the population, more than anyone the hesitant people, to get vaccine against smallpox.Although with the due differences determined by the path of time and by the scientific, educational and social advances of modern-day, this view from the past can provide us, with actual COVID pandemic, a reason of deep thinking and also how to face the present COVID-19 pandemic and to prepare for forcoming future. Actually, it shows us how the terrible smallpox epidemic was handled and finally overcome, thanks to vaccination.

Item Analysis of Measuring Stem Teachers’ Practice in Higher-Order Thinking Skills Questioning Using Rasch Model

For interdisciplinary approach in STEM integration, HOTS questioning application is part of inquiry-based learning which helps learners to construct knowledge by discovering new concepts and developing design thinking. In Malaysia, STEM teachers still insufficient to construct HOTS questions in teaching and learning session. This study aims to analyse HOTS questioning practice items using the Rasch model in terms of validity and reliability. The inventory was developed to measure STEM teachers HOTS questioning practice from five dimensions such as external world view, classroom interactions, deep and analytical thinking and complex thinking strategies using Likert type scale. The pilot study was conducted in eight secondary schools which involved 86 upper secondary STEM teachers. WINSTEPS version 3.72.3 was applied to analyse the pilot study outcomes. The results showed that the reliability based on Cronbach Alpha is 0.97. The construct validity was determined by positive Point Measure Correlation (PMC) value, infit and outfit MSNQ between 0.4 to 1.5 and ZSTD range from -2.0 to 2.0. The summary statistics showed that person and item reliability were 0.97 and 0.95, respectively. The person separation index with the value of 5.39 and item separation index, 4.59 were considered as excellent separation. Finally, for unidimensionality, raw variance explained by measure was 49.1%, and the unexplained variance in the first factor was 6.7% meet the criteria Therefore, after eliminating the unfit items, the results demonstrated that this inventory was valid and reliable to measure STEM teachers HOTS questioning practice in future.

Maáyir Ma Ba’d al-Thariqah al-Baidagujiyyah al-Tsalatsah fi Alqurán al-Karim

This research aimed to find the pattern of three parameters of the post method in Alqurán. This study adopted qualitative research with a literature review model. The object of this research was a pattern obtained from three post method parameters with al-kalimah al-miftahiyyah in Alqurán. The data collection rested upon Qur’anic verses and their interpretations To conduct data analysis, the researchers used content analysis by Klaus Krippendorff. This study revealed the patterns of three parameters of postmethod pedagogy in the Qur’an, such as; particularity from the word “hikmah” wisdom which is with the mind and has an understanding as deep research; the parameter of practicality from the words ulul albab as the symbol of deep thinking, ulul abhsar as the symbol of deep feeling, and ulin nuha as the symbol of deep character; and parameter possibility from the word as-shabr as a power in the deep application.

Meditation and Madness. Ancient and Contemporary Speculation on Chinese Bird Totem Art

By comparing the forms, meanings and connotations of ancient and contemporary bird symbols, I realize that the driving force for writing this article up to now lies in my judgment on the present situation of bird symbol vision field, especially the idea of building a bridge between the conceptual world and the bird image world. I think the problem is not that ideas are dispensable to human beings, but that bird symbols of different forms and rhythms have invaded the structure of the world of ideas crazily. The so-called contemporary bird symbol has completely succumbed to the charm of discourse, which is a very bad situation for bird images. They often become a specific tool to convey a certain language. Therefore, it is an urgent task for today’s art to restore the concept of prehistoric bird totem’s visual sense and preserve its general inspiration. By integrating the thoughts of Socrates, the founder of Mania, and Foucault, a modernist philosopher, the author tries to deeply grasp the relationship between deep thinking mania and the meaning behind prehistoric bird totem art in the study of bird totem art, hoping that this study will help the audience to understand the relevance between ancient and contemporary bird totem art from a theoretical perspective.