Way Of Thinking Research Articles

Om folkbildningsmässig särart i idrottsrörelsens studieförbund SISU Idrottsutbildarna

The position of sports in relation to the Nordic Bildung tradition (e.g. Folkbildning) has historically been contested. Mainly so because sports were associated with competition and elite thinking in ways that contrast popular educational ideals. The purpose of this study is therefore to analyze what distinguishes the contemporary sports movement in terms of Folkbildning in relation to the pedagogical dilemmas and perspectives expressed by actors within the sports movement. The background to the study is a project initiated by the Swedish Sports Confederation (RF) after internal discussions about Folkbildning in their study association SISU Idrottsutbildarna during 2020. Focus group interviews with 4-7 participants were conducted using Zoom and included seven of SISU’s 19 local districts (altogether 40 informants). All interviews were around one hour long and were recorded and transcribed. The informants were all active in the study association SISU. The results are presented through the following categories: Folkbildning as an association pedagogy and nursery school, Folkbildning as a pedagogical idea beyond the measurable and Folkbildning as a universal pedagogical method. Overall, the study concludes how perceptions of Folkbildning within the sports movement risks being reduced to a method for solving social problems. At the same time, a unique association pedagogy emerges in the material, permeated with holistic educational ideals and where the sports movement on a more comprehensive and societal level contributes to important educational insights.

Harry Potter and cancel culture: Responding to fallen heroes

In the wake of the ongoing turmoil caused by J. K. Rowling’s tweets expressing transphobic prejudice, hurt fans must decide what, if any, future relationship they will have with the Harry Potter series. This article argues that the books provide a training ground for young people learning to grapple with difficult issues like problematic heroes, and that engaging in two kinds of fan activities can enable fans to continue to find value in Harry Potter while simultaneously registering their objections to prejudice and bias. These two activities are literary analysis and fan fiction, and both empower fans to articulate the problems of social justice in sustained, thoughtful ways that other short-form mediums like social media do not.

Indigenous literacies: A look at pedagogies and policy in the Southwest United States

AbstractLiteracy engagement for Indigenous peoples is a practice embedded in lived experience as thoughtful ways to communicate with and make sense of the world around us. Indigenous literacies involve the melding of Indigenous ways of knowing with contemporary educational pedagogies. Indigenous authors and teachers have long used Indigenous pedagogies in their writing and teaching to situate Indigenous identities and knowledge where it has been omitted, to interrogate the systems that appropriate or misarticulate Indigenous knowledge, to actively question spaces where the value and power of Indigenous knowledge is completely disregarded, and to reclaim or create spaces that amplify Indigenous voices and ways of knowing for learners as acts of education sovereignty. This column discusses the concepts of Indigenous literacy, it provides an overview of its practical applications in the US Southwest and the Native American education policies that shape literacy engagement in contemporary learning spaces centering on Indigenous perspectives.

The governance of E-waste recycling networks: Insights from São Paulo City

Electronic waste is an environmental problem because its production volume exceeds its recycling capacity. Academic and managerial production affirm two reasons: (a) dominant market logic and; (b) unresolved asymmetries among actors, causing conflicts to work together. Following the qualitative methodology, we investigate the e-waste situation in São Paulo City. The results allow us to propose that governance constructed by local actors could be a thoughtful way to promote e-waste recycling. Examples from around the world sustain this proposition. The theoretical principle is that the social process of constructing the mechanisms for collective action can solve challenges because the rules, roles, and actions are discussed and assumed by the actors working together. We present a matrix of indicators to be used in future studies in order to refine the proposition of constructed governance.

Urbanization Trends Analysis Using Hybrid Modeling of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process-Cellular Automata-Markov Chain and Investigating Its Impact on Land Surface Temperature over Gharbia City, Egypt

Quick population increase and the desire for urbanization are the main drivers for accelerating urban expansion on agricultural lands in Egypt. This issue is obvious in governorates with no desert backyards. This study aims to (1) explore the trend of Land Use Land Cover Change (LULCC) through the period of 1991–2018; (2) upgrade the reliability of predicting LULCC by integrating the Cellular Automata (CA)-Markov chain and fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (FAHP); and (3) perform analysis of urbanization risk on LST trends over the Gharbia governorate for the decision makers to implement effective strategies for sustainable land use. Multi-temporal Landsat images were used to monitor LULCC dynamics from 1991 to 2018 and then simulate LULCC in 2033 and 2048. Two comparable models were adopted for the simulation of spatiotemporal dynamics of land use in the study area: CA-Markov chain and FAHP-CA-Markov chain hybrid models. The second model upgrades the potential of the CA-Markov chain for prediction by its integration with FAHP, which can determine the locations of high potential to be urbanized. The outcomes stated a significant LULCC in Gharbia during the study period—specifically, urban sprawl on agricultural land, and this trend is predicted to carry on. The agricultural sector represented 91.2% in 1991 and reduced to 83.7% in 2018. The built-up area is almost doubled by 2048 with respect to 2018. The regression analysis revealed the LST increase due to urbanization, causing an urban heat island phenomenon. Criteria-based analysis reveals the district’s vulnerability to rapid urbanization, which is efficient for data-gap zones. The simulation results make sense since the FAHP-CA-Markov simulated the LULCC in a thoughtful way, considering the driving forces of LULCC, while the CA-Markov chain results were relatively random. Therefore, the FAHP-CA-Markov chain is the pioneer to be relied upon for future projection. The findings of this work provide a better understanding of LULCC trends over the years supporting decision makers toward sustainable land use. Thus, further urbanization should be planned to avert the loss of agricultural land and uninterrupted increasing temperatures.

Matters of Interest: Difference and Responsibility in Goswami’s Subjects That Matter

Abstract: Namita Goswami’s book, Subjects That Matter: Philosophy, Feminism, and Postcolonial Theory , challenges its reader not only to attend to how one philosophizes about difference but also how one might philosophize differently. It is concerned with how we, now, practice philosophy as well as what we philosophize about. In this response, I raise a series of questions meant to challenge and expand Goswami’s work from the standpoint of someone rooted in the dominant framework of the Anglo-European academic discourse on difference. In raising these questions, I take myself to be attempting the very twisting free of conventional philosophizing that Subjects That Matter invites. Some of the most powerful discussions in Goswami’s book concern the issues of metaphysics, dialectics, and history. The questions raised here predominantly concern whether specifically “dialectical” non-identity is faithful to Goswami’s conception of a non-antagonistic understanding of difference. Relatedly, does the past-facing metaphysical concept of the Whole insinuate itself in philosophy in such a way as to preclude thinking in ways that go against the grain of the Eurocentric tradition? From this concern for the conceptual commitments of dialectics and its associated metaphysics arises the further concern of whether even a negative dialectics allows for sufficiently differential genealogies.

Existential Investigations into Our Existential Crisis

AbstractNow that the opportunity to build back from COVID in an intelligent and thoughtful way has largely passed us by, how do we cope with the existential threat of ecological collapse? We posit that economic concerns have been granted undeserved weight in conversations around climate policy, while the role of philosophy has thus far been an untapped resource of potentially liberating knowledge that can inspire action and a deliberative, collective reconsideration of what parts of society should be valued.

Products From Building an Engineering Model for Stem Education Activity

The aim of this study is to examine whether the purpose of the Engineering Model Eliciting Activities (EngMEAs) are to be used as a tool to bridge engineering and school mathematics in the transition to STEM education. To this end, researchers have developed "Traffic Lights Problem", which has an interdisciplinary nature, working with mathematics teacher. This problem was applied to two groups of 3 and 4 students studying in the 7th grade in a city center in the eastern region of Turkey in the 2017-2018 academic year. In the process of solving the problem, the students used mathematics, science, technology and engineering knowledge in an integrated structure and introduced their own mathematical and scientific ideas and supported these ideas with in-group discussions and presented different models (products). The models of the students were different from each other because of students’ first exposure to such a process, different way of thoughts in the groups and inherent complexity of the modelling problems. In the light of the findings, it was concluded that the traffic lights modeling problem had an interdisciplinary nature, and this problem may have an important function for STEM education.

Products From Building an Engineering Model for Stem Education Activity

The aim of this study is to examine whether the purpose of the Engineering Model Eliciting Activities (EngMEAs) are to be used as a tool to bridge engineering and school mathematics in the transition to STEM education. To this end, researchers have developed "Traffic Lights Problem", which has an interdisciplinary nature, working with mathematics teacher. This problem was applied to two groups of 3 and 4 students studying in the 7th grade in a city center in the eastern region of Turkey in the 2017-2018 academic year. In the process of solving the problem, the students used mathematics, science, technology and engineering knowledge in an integrated structure and introduced their own mathematical and scientific ideas and supported these ideas with in-group discussions and presented different models (products). The models of the students were different from each other because of students’ first exposure to such a process, different way of thoughts in the groups and inherent complexity of the modelling problems. In the light of the findings, it was concluded that the traffic lights modeling problem had an interdisciplinary nature, and this problem may have an important function for STEM education.

Mindfulness and Technology: A Blended Learning

Children in the 21st century have no choice to be isolated from the digital world as they almost grow up with devices from an early stage. The availability of internet service and digitization expanded the access to children for learning opportunities, even those who belong to the remote area of developing countries. Since internet services have connected people globally, creating many opportunities and adding new challenges to young children, such as cyber bullying, lack of physical exercise, and many others. Despite the numerous advantages of Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT), experts worry that children spend most of their time with devices contributing to digital dependency and screen addiction. It has changed the children's way of life, thoughts, and experiences, as these issues are the subject of public debate of overuse of the internet increased the threat to their well-being. One of the significant risks is that children are facing mental health problems, including anxiety, depression, and lack of inner peace. Thus, the education system should rethink balancing digital learning and real-world context learning in the 21st-century education system. The present paper discusses how young children are affected by digital dependency and how mindfulness support mitigating these issues by adopting blended learning of technology and mindfulness in the teaching-learning process.

Mental Action Way of Understanding (WoU) and Way of Thinking (WoT) Students in Statistics Learning in Higher Education

This study aims to examine in depth the Mental Action Way of Understanding (WoU) and Way of Thinking (WoT) of students in learning Statistics in Higher Education and the relationship between WoU and WoT. This research is qualitative research using the Grounded Theory approach. The participants involved were 36 people in the city of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia. Validity and reliability using the Krippendorff content analysis method with the Inter-coder Agreement (ICA) test using Krippendorff alpha coefficients. The results showed that there was a significant relationship between students' mental action statistics and students' WoU and WoT in Statistical Understanding and Thinking. The relationship between WoU and WoT: (1) Students’ WoU will build such a statistical framework. (2) Students’ WoT affects how statistical modeling from their statistical knowledge. This relationship fits the philosophy of statistics and inductive inference. The statistical mental action of WoU students was to make models, analyze, calculate and generalize. The mental actions of Statistics students from WoT were interpreting, analyzing, predicting, reasoning, and inferring. The WoU and WoT mental action models developed the PPDC Cycle model and the Gal’s statistical literacy model. the PPDAC Cycle model by Wild and Pfankuch, consists of five dimensions, and one of the dimensions was the PPDAC Cycle. The statistical literacy model by Gal consists of two dimensions, namely the dimensions of statistical knowledge and disposition. The novelty of this research was developing the PPDAC Cycle statistical thinking model by Wild and Pfankuch, and the statistical literacy model on the statistical knowledge dimension by Gal. This study's results can be considered in designing statistical learning in universities and measuring students' understanding and statistical thinking skills.

Noise Removal from Images Using Adaptive Neuro/Network-Fuzzy Interface Systems

Any Information signal is best desirable without any external noise/ disturbances. Noise in any signal is the undesirable quantity present which deteriorates the signal's quality, thus compromising the information. Any signal, be it an image signal (2-D) or else a video signal (3-D) in the field of communication, if not always but most number of times prone to noise. In this paper, we would be dealing with removing types of noise on an image, using various filter techniques such as vector median filter, vector directional filter. Using the image processing tools in MATLAB, we could achieve this quite effortlessly. Looking at the prior approaches and keeping those factors in understanding, this paper would intend to path a more thoughtful way to bifurcate the image from its noise using the techniques of the neural networks. With thorough scrutiny and understanding of filters, this paper ensemble the performance of filters, through which we would be applying the most suitable filter out of the lot with the neural networks.

Teaching the process of science with primary literature: Usingthe CREATE pedagogy in ecological courses.

There have been numerous calls for improved pedagogical practices in biological education, and there is a clear need for such improvements in ecology and related curricula. Most ecology-related texts lack pedagogy and are designed to be content-rich. National initiatives, such as Vision & Change, provide guidance on undergraduate biology education, including increasing use of evidence-based active learning, and taking a more conceptual and science practice skills approach. Biology education research is rich with evidence-based teaching practices, which reveal that active learning approaches implemented in thoughtful ways lead to strong learning gains relative to lecture-based course delivery. CREATE (Consider, Read, Elucidate the hypothesis, Analyze and interpret data, Think of the next Experiment) integrates evidence-based active pedagogical practices into one approach to STEM education that focuses heavily on the process of science and science practice skills rather than content delivery by replacing the textbook with selected journal articles. The approach focuses on deep reading and analysis of primary literature; immersing students in the literature is an advantage of the pedagogy. CREATE was developed and tested in other biological disciplines (genetics and molecular biology) that have long been at the forefront of pedagogical best practices in biology. We transformed two upper-level undergraduate ecological courses (Conservation Biology, and Biodiversity and Ecology) into CREATE courses. We provide examples of assignments, student work, and assessments of the approach, illustrating the various ways CREATE can be successfully implemented. The approach can be adopted in part, to ease into it and test it out, or in whole. We recommend that ecology teachers consider making their courses more active, if they have not already done so; adopting pedagogical practices embedded within CREATE can be a way to achieve active learning. The CREATE approach and other evidence-based pedagogical best practices lead to strong learning gains and more inclusive learning environments.

Enabling care: Maggie's centres and the affordance of hope.

This study explores the role of architecture in the affordance of hope for people with cancer. Specifically, it revisits 'enabling places' debates to understand the influence of spatial design in the experience of cancer care. Combining interviews and focus group data from two separate studies of visitors, volunteers, and staff members of Maggie's Centres, an organisation providing cancer support in the UK and internationally, the study investigates the emotional power of their buildings. In particular, we explore how Maggie's Centre buildings provide material, social, and affective resources for their users. We argue that Maggie's Centres help its visitors to orient themselves to their changing lives and uncertain futures in thoughtful ways and, thus, their buildings offer examples of the 'taking place' of hope.

The Way of Thought and Practice

The Way of Thought and Practice

Margins and centres: Gender and feminism in business history

Gender and feminism are often described as being marginal to the preoccupations that define the core of business history. Here we explore three possibilities that this framing suggests: first, that scholars of gender and feminism in business history are responsible for moving their work from margins to centre, becoming part of and perhaps changing the mainstream; second, that those working in the centre ought to expand their horizons to become more cognisant of feminism and gender; and third, the interpretation that we examine in detail here, that all working on historical analysis of business can rethink the distinction between the construction of core and periphery. This latter approach means actively challenging the maintenance of the centre/margin metaphor and its effects. We argue that this third approach would benefit all working in the field. Envisioning a more heterodox business history enables critical analysis of white, male, Anglocentric norms and values that have framed historical thinking in ways that exclude and produce partial, unsatisfactory, histories.

Surveys as conversations between makers and takers: A conversational framework for assessing and responding to community needs

AbstractSurveys, commonly employed in the social and behavioral sciences, are practical tools that can be used to assess the needs and attitudes of a given population. If not implemented in thoughtful ways, however, surveys can be inefficient or even harmful. With surveys often informing critical policy decisions, survey administrators must make careful methodological choices in order to obtain meaningful results and make sound decisions. In this paper, we review the social scientific literature on survey administration to aid policymakers, practitioners, and other survey administrators in understanding their position, identifying their participants, and establishing a plan for their surveys. We provide an overarching framework for survey design, guided by the idea that surveys are conversations between administrators and participants, in order to help creators of surveys make better decisions and engage more effectively with the communities they serve.

Development of Mathematics Learning Tools In The New Normal Era for MTs Students to Practice Critical Thinking

The purpose of this research is that learning in Indonesia continues. The Covid-19 pandemic in Indonesia has made learning carried out online. Therefore, Learning Tool Development is also carried out online by utilizing E-Learning. The e-Learning used is zoom, quizizz, and google classroom. With online learning, it is hoped that students will remain enthusiastic in carrying out learning, even though there are many obstacles experienced by students during this online learning. Learning tools provided online are expected to train students' critical thinking in ways or strategies to solve mathematical problems or problems. By designing learning tools that are attractive, creative, and efficient so that students do not get bored during online learning, and can use smartphones positively and wisely. Learning kits consist of lesson plans, quizizz-based worksheets, and YouTube audio-visual materials. The purpose of this research is for learning to continue even in the new normal era due to the Covid-19 pandemic, by utilizing technology and information media such as E-learning.

Facilitating Residents' Understanding of Electronic Health Record Report Card Data Using Faculty Feedback and Coaching.

Feedback continues to present a challenge for competency-based medical education. Clear, consistent, and credible feedback is vital to supporting one's ongoing development, yet it can be difficult to gather clinical performance data about residents. This study sought to determine whether providing residents with electronic health record (EHR)-based report cards, as well as an opportunity to discuss these data with faculty trained using the R2C2 model, can help residents understand and interpret their clinical performance metrics. Using action research methodology, the author team collected EHR data from July 2017 to February 2020, for all residents (n = 21) in one 5-year Emergency Medicine program and created personalized report cards for each resident. During October 6-17, 2020, 8 out of 17 eligible residents agreed to have their feedback conversations recorded and participate in a subsequent interview with a nonphysician member of the research team. Data were analyzed using thematic analysis, and the authors used inductive analysis to identify themes in the data. In analyzing both the feedback conversations as well as the individual interviews with faculty and residents, the authors identified 2 main themes: (1) Reactions and responses to receiving personalized EHR data and (2) The value of EHR data for assessment and feedback purposes. All participants believed that EHR data metrics are useful for prompting self-reflection, and many pointed to their utility in providing suggestions for actionable changes in their clinical practice. For faculty, having a tool through which underperforming residents can be shown "objective" data about their clinical performance helps underscore the need for improvement, particularly when residents are resistant. The EHR is a valuable source of educational data, and this study demonstrates one of the many thoughtful ways it can be used for assessment and feedback purposes.

What does the public think about microplastics? Insights from an empirical analysis of mental models elicited through free associations.

Microplastics are an issue of rising concern, in terms of their possible implications for both the environment and human health. A survey was distributed among a representative sample of the adult Norwegian population (N = 2720) to explore the public understanding of microplastics. Respondents were asked to report the first thing that came to mind when they read or heard the word “microplastics,” based on which a coding scheme was developed that served to categorize the obtained answers into thematic clusters. Results indicate that the public seem to think of microplastics as something bad that might pollute the ocean and harm animal species. Awareness of the sources of microplastics appeared to be rather low, and few respondents mentioned potential ways to solve the problem. Responses differed across certain socio-demographic characteristics; for example, female and younger respondents were more likely to think about the spread and causes/sources of microplastics, whereas a higher educational level was associated positively with thinking of ways to solve the problem. Additional analyses indicated relationships between personal values and the identified thematic clusters; for example, endorsing self-transcendence and openness-to-change values was associated with thinking of ways to solve and of consequences of microplastics. These findings are informative to those wanting to design tailored communications and interventions aimed at reducing plastic pollution and plastic waste.