Constructive Thinking Research Articles

Based on Ku Hongming’s “The Sprite of the Chinese People” to Explore the Formation of Cultural Self-Confidence from Cultural Conservatism

Conservatism, as a cultural trend, was accompanied by the process of modernizations. Its basic feature is that it attempts to critique the overextension of instrumental rationality in modernization and the resulting social problems such as human alienation and moral loss. Its humanist tendencies and reflections on the modernization movement have their own unique cultural value. As a kind of critical and constructive thinking, Ku Hongming’s cultural conservatism can participate in historical dialogue. In the new era, how should we view modernization and Chinese culture, how to maintain our national identity in the midst of the cultural storm of globalization, how to correctly treat Chinese traditional culture in the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics, and how to promote the formation of cultural self-confidence, Ku Hongming’s cultural perspectives have somehow given us deep thought and inspiration to some extent. The Spirit of the Chinese People is one of Ku’s major works, and its contents are a direct reflection of Ku’s thinking. Reading and Studying on this book will help us to understand his true thoughts and appreciate his cultural confidence and independent personality.

Using of 5E Model in Teaching Reading Comprehension for Preparatory School Students

Bybee (1997) defines 5E instructional model as an approach that allows students redefine,)reorganize, elaborate, and change their initial concepts through self-reflection and interaction with their peers and their environment. The 5 E's Instructional Model Origin is one of the most practical recommended models in the application of constructivist learning theory. It is built around a structured sequence and designed as a tangible and practical way for teachers to implement the constructivist theory. In other words, the model is based on constructivism which confirms that learners build or construct new ideas on top of their old ones. The origin of the model refers to 1980s when Biological Science Curriculum Study (BSCS) Team, whose leader was Rodger Bybee designed a model based on constructivist thinking. They named the model the 5E's to represent all the stages and their numbers. The 5E instructional model is predicated on inquiry based learning. In this model, instructors must work with their students, who will feel more motivated to learn when they feel supported by their instructors to generate thought-provoking questions and create hypotheses. The instructional model also promotes rational discussions as well as collaborative problem solving, which ultimately lead to understanding (Gillies etal, 2012).

Mirror, Mirror, in My Mind: An Ethological Approach to Shaping Student Behavior

This paper introduces an ethology for understanding student behavior and creating interventions to shape positive social, emotional, and academic performance. Rooted in the principles of applied behavior analysis and learning theories, the author suggests a proactive perspective to observing and shaping student behaviors in a post-pandemic era and provides one tool for flipping and reframing a student’s mindset to promote constructive thinking and positive social behaviors.

Investigating the Relationship between Individual and Organization Fit and Psychological Empowerment and Constructive Thinking in Medical Personnel of Hospital in Behbahan City in 2022

Background: Psychological empowerment and constructive thinking and its fit with the job are one of the most important success factors in advancing the organization's goals and increasing commitment and job performance. This study was conducted to investigating the relationship between individual and organizational fit and psychological empowerment and constructive thinking in medical personnel of a Hospital in Behbahan City in 2022.
 Methods: This descriptive-analytical (cross-sectional) study was conducted on 250. The assessment of psychological empowerment was measured using a 15-question Spritzer and Meishert questionnaire, the evaluation of constructive thinking was measured using a 28-question Epstein and Mayer questionnaire, and the state of individual and organizational fit was measured using a 10-question Scroggins questionnaire. The data was analyzed using SPSS 26 software and a significance level of 0.05.
 Results: The average age of the study participants was 36.21 years. The average score of psychological empowerment was 13.39 ± 9.84, which was higher than the average and was at a desirable level. The average score of constructive thinking was 27.75 ± 19.08, which was at the optimal level and above the average. The average score of fit between the individual and the organization was 18.91 ± 17.08 which was above the average and at the optimal level. There was a positive and significant relationship between the average score of individual-organization fit and constructive thinking (p = 0.007). The relationship between the mean score of psychological empowerment and constructive thinking was also positive and significant (p = 0.000). However, there was no significant relationship between the average score of individual-organization fit and psychological empowerment (p = 0.196).
 Conclusion: According to the results and the positive relationship between the fit variables of the organization and the psychological empowerment with constructive thinking, it is possible to improve the other variables with the positive changes and promotion of each of them and advance it towards its goals by promoting the organization.

“HIV has taught us that you can survive anything”: findings from auto-ethnographic video diaries exploring resilience among people living with HIV during the Covid pandemic in five countries

ABSTRACT This study aimed to elucidate the intrinsic and extrinsic resilience resources among people living with HIV (PLWH) during the Covid pandemic. Autoethnographic video diaries from 29 PLWH from Argentina, UK, Philippines, Zimbabwe, and Trinidad and Tobago were included. Data were thematically analysed and validated with community partners and a video was co-produced. PLWH displayed a readiness to adopt healthy behaviours and engage in optimistic and constructive thinking about the future. Hobbies and daily activities, supportive relationships with peers living with HIV, family and friends, opportunities to mobilise and contribute to their communities in meaningful ways, supportive healthcare providers and reliable access to antiretroviral treatment helped foster psychological resilience among PLWH. The extrinsic resilience resources also supported positive physical health outcomes among PLWH through improved medication adherence.

경영컨설턴트의 셀프리더십이 혁신행동에 미치는 영향

This study analyzes the mediating effect of self-efficacy and job satisfaction in the relationship between consultant self-leadership and innovative behavior. In order to analyze the mediating effect of self-efficacy and job satisfaction, the Model 6 series multi-media model of SPSS PROCESS macro was applied. A survey was conducted on 240 consultants, and a study was conducted with 172 cases. Behavior focused strategies, natural reward strategies, and constructive thought pattern strategies all had a positive effect on self-efficacy, job satisfaction, and innovative behavior. Self-efficacy has a positive effect on job satisfaction and innovative behavior, and job satisfaction has a mediating effect in the relationship between self-leadership and innovative behavior. The mediating effect considering the causal relationship between self-efficacy and job satisfaction is only effective in constructive thinking strategies. Self-leadership is very useful for consultants to create new ideas to improve the performance of their work and organization. This fact suggests that improving self-leadership in practice is of paramount importance to consultants due to the nature of consultants' work to solve problems of undergoing examination companies and present alternatives.

SOCIO-PEDAGOGIC CONDITIONS OF DESIGN ORIGINATION

The article discusses the emergence of design as a profession for the sake of Art and Craft connection. As a means of artistic activity, special schools were guided by teaching methods of design and produced the first graduates. Along with its development, design has not only turned into a separate professional activity, but has also begun to have an influence on the art and design culture altogether. Design, being one of the most important areas of national culture, has always been connected with the aesthetic thought development of the given era. The aforementioned directions of art, creativity, and design, as well as their elements, could not be formed and developed outside the given aesthetic system. Such a high level required an appropriate environment, both in one's own country and in countries connected by certain political and socio-pedagogic ties. Both in the entire cultural and aesthetic system, as well as in design, the successes have been very great when the entire aesthetic and artistic thought has been weighed against already recognized problems. It was only about developing a creative approach to work among students, because for a designer who has to create new drawings almost every day, this is simply necessary (Itten I., Iskusstvo formy, 2004, p. 138). In the content of modern artistic education, a large place is given to the profession of designer, which was the main purpose of this article. Intellectually - constructive thinking, planning is only a “cart” that delivers us to the doors of a new reality (Itten I., Iskusstvo cveta, 2004, p. 58).

Comparing Perfectionism, Cognitive Mindset, Constructive Thinking, and Emotional Intelligence in Gifted Students by Grade and Gender

The study compared the differences among gifted students of different grades and genders concerning perfectionism, cognitive mindset, constructive thinking, and emotional intelligence. The study included 908 gifted primary-school students from third to sixth grade. The study used the t-test and analysis of variance methods, and four scales. Furthermore, the following were the conclusions. Firstly, gifted pupils of different grades and genders scored considerably differently on some perfectionism subscales. Second, there were notable differences in the cognitive mindset of gifted pupils in different grades. Lastly, there was a substantial difference between gifted pupils in different grades in the distrust-of-others subscale in the constructive-thinking scale. Finally, there was a substantial difference in introversion, interpersonal relationships, and mood among gifted students of different genders.

The Impact of the Critical Thinking on Cognitive Building


 
 
 
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 The study aims to identify the impact of the critical thinking on human cognitive construction, highlight the concept of critical thinking, clarify its characteristics, interpret knowledge theories of critical thinking, identify the dimensions of critical thinking in cognitive construction, and identify critical thinking skills that must be available to learners, the importance of the research stems from its importance to highlight the critical thinking in cognitive development, achieving the desired renaissance of societies, and the ability of critical thinking to free students' thought from dependence on the ideas of others.
 This study relied on the descriptive approach and the analytical approach. Some of the important results were reached, including that critical thinking helps to reach the truth in a scientific way, and that critical thinking has two dimensions: the cognitive dimension and the emotional dimension, and that there are cognitive skills for critical thinking, such as: interpretation. The study showed that the critical thinker has major personal dimensions, including: understanding the rules of logic, and the ability to interpret. The study stated some recommendations, including: the necessity of teaching critical thinking and its importance in schools and universities, and preparing training courses for teachers and learners to qualify them to use critical thinking in the educational process.
 
 
 

New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory

New Ecological Realisms: Post-apocalyptic Fiction and Contemporary Theory

Directions of the humanitarian cycle disciplines modification in the conditions of war

The article emphasizes the necessity of analyzing the relationship between the collective picture of the world, which undergoes changes during the war, and the educational strategy in the field of the disciplines of the humanitarian cycle. The acquisition of sound academic background requires consistency of teaching methods and the ways of perceiving and producing information. Only under this condition there are no cases of de-semanticization of educational values. In the conditions of war, we have faced the modification of the worldview value paradigm. National resistance has been embodied in speech, cultural, psychological and social phenomena due to the partial legalization of unregulated phenomena. There has been a failure of a stable structure of values based on the superiority of the ontological criterion of reasoning. Socio-cultural elements of national resistance became phenomenal violations of speech rules and etiquette norms, which are perceived as particularly inappropriate during the war. Elements of the educational process, especially in the field of humanitarian disciplines, also require checking for de-semanticization. In these conditions, the main task of humanitarian education is to restore the validity of one’s own expression, to abandon the principle of familiarization and accumulation of information in order to successfully pass the test. Under these conditions, the main task of humanitarian education is to restore the validity of one’s own declaration. The teaching methods of the disciplines should take into account the psychological peculiarities of the modern generation of higher education seekers, such as “clip thinking”, for example. In the conditions of war, it is necessary to creat a new educational discourse that would be a communicative time-space for discussing different points of view on certain information. It is also extremely important to exercise the skills of variable interpretation, to understand the sources and consequences of a certain message. These are the skills that can make you feel confident in the navigation around the battlefield of the information war and can prevent you from becoming an object of information manipulation. The new educational discourse envisages the status of the teacher as a source of constructive thinking, not an information flow. The time-space of the lecture class should be filled with the process of making judgments, expressing thoughts, suggesting various interpretations of the information. It should become a place for intellectual quests.

Chess Strategy and the Development of Constructivist Thinking: Cultivating Cognitive Skills and Transferable Competencies

Chess Strategy and the Development of Constructivist Thinking: Cultivating Cognitive Skills and Transferable Competencies

Practice and Thinking of Ideological and Political Construction in Engineering Graduate Education Course

Practice and Thinking of Ideological and Political Construction in Engineering Graduate Education Course

Star intrapreneurs:characteristics of Indonesian corporate entrepreneurs

Global competition has been driving many companies globally, including in Indonesia, to develop intrapreneurship within their organizations. The current study offers the concept of star intrapreneurs to examine the intrapreneur character scale which operates at the individual level within the cultural context of Indonesia. The concept of intrapreneurship in this study consisted of two dimensions: the person and the interaction. The dimension of person has three sub-dimensions: pattern of constructive thinking, pattern of positive attitude, and pattern of productive action. Meanwhile, the dimension of interaction also consisted of three subdimensions: friend in thinking, interlocutor, and partner in action. Visually, the six sub-dimensions are depicted in the form of a star with six corner points. Confirmatory factors analysis was used. This study has proven that the two dimensions and the six sub-dimensions of star intrapreneurs are acceptable and correlate with individual work performance as an external validator.

Narrating Women Architects’ Histories. Paradigms, Dilemmas, and Challenges.

Women studies in architecture have been inspired by different ways of thinking, which can be summarized in four ‘paradigms’: difference thinking, equality thinking, constructionist thinking and intersectionalist thinking. By revising seminal books, articles and exhibitions, this paper explores the historiographical dilemmas and challenges that narrating women architects’ histories involves, focusing on two of the most relevant ones: the question of authorship and the canonical understanding of the architecture as the design of new architectural objects. The paper discusses the impact of women studies in art on the methodologies used in narrating women architects, but also presents the differences that should be taken into account when exploring the work of women artist and architects.

Conceptual metaphor sport as war in Vietnamese football news

Abstract Stemming from the widespread appearance of war metaphors in Vietnamese sports news, the article conducts the research on the emergence of metaphors related to the source domain of war in Vietnamese sports news. The International Commentary section aims to clarify the relationship between “sport” and “war” in Vietnamese mind maps. This article analyses the conceptual metaphor sport as war underlying the metaphorically used words and expressions in Vietnamese sports news and explains the mapping scheme between source domain and target domain. Based on the experiential correlations and knowledge mapped from source domain to target domain, the article shows typical thinking of the conceptual construction, which is both universal and typical of Vietnamese people thinking, indicating the hierarchy in conceptual thinking. The primary metaphor sport as war, through mapping scheme, the article proves the appearance of derivative metaphors in sports news such as sports competition as a battle between the warring parties; the footballers as military participants; the main footballers in competition are the weapons in the war; tactics in competing in a sports event as tactics in battle; the actions of footballers are the actions of the warring parties; fouls and misconduct are destroying an opponent in battle; coach as battle commander; winning/losing the match as winning/losing the battle. The current study’s findings are the metaphors grouped into categories: battle activities, battle devices, battle results/consequences, battle tactics. The article’s research results may help journalism students in writing skills and use conceptual metaphors in writing news and articles; suggest to sports bulletin editors how to use conceptual metaphors in news and articles to increase attraction for readers and listeners; and make matches more excited, dramatic and attractive.

ASSESSING THE INFLUENCE OF SELF-LEADERSHIP STRATEGIES AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CAPITAL ON WORK ENGAGEMENT AMONG BANKING SECTOR EMPLOYEES

It has become vital to propose new forms of engaging employees in the banking industry in order to retain critical customers and increase profits. The banking industry operates in an exceedingly complicated and competitive atmosphere characterised by ever-changing conditions and an extremely unpredictable financial climate; it is also faced with economic recession and depleted employee confidence. With the reported challenges experienced by the banking industry, it has become imperative to find mechanisms to improve work engagement. The traditional methods of fostering engagement have proved ineffective, and managers are on the lookout for new ways of engaging employees. This research proposes that embracing and encouraging the self-leadership strategies and creating a positive psychological environment which facilitate employee thriving can be part of the new methods to boost work engagement. The main purpose of the inquiry was to determine the extent to which a combination of self-leadership strategies and psychological resources may influence work engagement. Using 303 banking sector employees a cross-sectional quantitative survey was applied. Results indicated that self-leadership strategies combined with psychological capital explain 69.4% variance in work engagement. Constructive thought patterns and hope are the main contributors to work engagement. Combining self-leadership strategies (constructive thoughts, self-efficacy, and hope) yields favourable levels of work engagement for banking sector employees. To enhance the energy levels and the quality of work among banking sector employees, managers can focus on encouraging the utilisation of self-leadership strategies and enhancing psychological resources to formulate practices that may improve work engagement. This study contributes to new knowledge pertaining to strategies that could be utilised by mangers to improve or enhance work engagement in the banking industry. The study also produced compelling implications for advancing theory through the identification of personal resources from self-leadership and psychological capital. These resources can be utilised to enhance individual work engagement based on the Job Demands Resource Model.

Thinking of High Standard Farmland Construction Based on Analysis of Cultivated Land Potential

Accelerating the construction of high standard farmland is a major decision of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council to strengthen the work of "agriculture, countryside and farmers". In the past two years, accelerating the construction of high standard farmland has been regarded as an important part of strengthening the material support and service system of modern agriculture. It is clearly proposed to make overall arrangements for various construction funds such as land consolidation, reclamation and development, and comprehensive agricultural development, to focus on promoting rural land consolidation, implement comprehensive management of land, water, roads, and forests, and carry out large-scale transformation of medium and low yield farmland to increase the proportion of high standard farmland.

Взаимосвязь предикторов иррационального поведения с индивидуально-типологическими и личностными особенностями

A number of studies in cognitive psychology indicate that human behavior is largely governed by irrational factors (heuristics, cognitive biases, attitudes). These factors influence vital decisions, which can subsequently affect a person’s life and behavior in a broad temporal perspective. There is a lack of research on identifying the individual-typological and personal characteristics that make the irrational behavior more likely to occur. Our research is aimed at revealing the interrelation of predictors of irrational behavior (superstitiousness, “prelogical” defense, unconstructive, categorical, personally superstitious and esoteric thinking, naive optimism), individual-typological and personality characteristics of respondents. We used I. R. Abitov’s questionnaire, J. Tobacyk’s Paranormal Belief Scale adapted by D. S. Grigoriev, I. Y. Stoyanova’s Beliefs and Superstitions Questionnaire, and S. Epstein’s Constructive Thinking Inventory (adapted by S. N. Enikolopov and S. V. Lebedev) to reveal the expression of irrational behavior predictors. The individual-typological characteristics were identified using the Temperament Accentuation Test and the Individual-Typological Questionnaire, while the personal characteristics were identified using the G. V. Zalewski Psychological Rigidity Questionnaire and the C. Scheyer and M. Carver Test for Optimism. It was found that a decrease in the constructive thinking is associated with the expression of such characteristics as shyness, aggression, neuroticism (anxiety), sensitivity to external influences, various manifestations of rigidity, emotional instability and pessimism. It was also found that the expression of these characteristics, as well as pessimism and aversion to changes in self-esteem and personal position, is associated with a tendency to show categorical (“black and white”) thinking. Naive optimism is more often shown by respondents with such characteristics as hyperthymia and increased social activity. The relationship of personality-superstitious thinking with pessimism, fear of new situations, shyness, neuroticism (anxiety), and a tendency to exaggerate one’s difficulties were found. The novelty of our study lies in the discovery of complexes of characteristics that can increase the likelihood of irrational behavior. Reviewing the literature on the topic of the research, we did not find any works made in the mainstream of such an approach. The complexes of individual-typological and personal characteristics revealed in the given research can be considered as “targets” of psychological correction and prevention to decrease the risk of socially dangerous behavior.

Spatial thinking of students when studying graphic disciplines

The article examines the problems that students face when studying graphic disciplines. At present, the task of further improving the quality of professional training of students has been set as the most important task for higher and secondary specialized institutions. This involves broad-based training of future specialists and the complex nature of mastering modern theoretical and applied knowledge, the ability to apply the knowledge gained in practice, possession of the necessary skills in a related field. A specialist with a higher education, but without knowledge and skills to receive and process graphic information, may turn out to be incompetent in professional activities. The preparedness of students for graphic activity is determined by the complex of knowledge acquired by them in the learning process, skills of reproductive and creative activity, which in the future determine their successful professional activity. A future engineer must have a high level of general and technical intelligence, well-developed spatial thinking, and have a high level of theoretical knowledge in the field of professional activity. In the system of training specialists for engineering specialties, one of the main places is occupied by the academic disciplines «Engineering Graphics» and «Descriptive Geometry». They contribute to the development of the future engineer of spatial representation, logical and constructive thinking, the ability to analyze and synthesize. Well-developed spatial awareness and imagination are prerequisites for successful learning in many academic disciplines. And the disciplines «Descriptive geometry» and «Engineering graphics» by their content make high demands on the level of development of spatial representations. This article reveals the reasons for the weak development of spatial representations among first-year students of universities. It is proposed to use the developed approach, including tasks, methods and system of exercises, tasks and tests, as one of the ways to successfully develop spatial representations in the study of graphic disciplines. Each group of exercises of this system is aimed at the conscious and active work of students and solves a specific problem arising from the theoretical foundations of the development of spatial representations.