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Pensare con gusto
2021
The greatest challenge for a human being lies in being able to understand, and indeed welcome, one’s own limits as an essential ingredient that determines, qualifies, and ultimately enriches the very tendency to overcome them. Any gesture that, in whatever way, aims to elevate us from our finite condition will be all the more successful in its intent the deeper that condition is imprinted in it.
When is Architecture Not Design?
2019
If there’s nothing more to architecture than design, and to its attendant thinking processes than design thinking, then core dimensions of the enterprise from production and use angles have no special character over and above their counterparts in general design. Yet that does not appear to be true by the lights of architects or design specialists or the public at large. So what is it, at the core or periphery of the discipline or its objects, that makes architecture not design? The ways in which architecture and design constitute artistic enterprises, drawing on and promoting aesthetic interest, differ such that architecture is not, or at least not only, a branch of or variation on desi…
Videojuegos para el desarrollo del pensamiento crítico y el diálogo
2020
El presente artículo retoma los resultados de la investigación realizada por la autora, cuyo título es Videojuegos en el aula: una propuesta asociada al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico (2016). Las inquietudes generadas en el estudio guardan relación con los lineamientos para desarrollar una propuesta de uso de los videojuegos en el aula, asociada al desarrollo del pensamiento crítico, en un grupo de jóvenes venezolanos escolarizados con edades comprendidas entre 13 y 17 años. Se procuró entender el videojuego como producto cultural en el contexto venezolano, los hábitos de consumo por parte de los sujetos estudiados y su relación con el pensamiento crítico y el desarrollo de procesos de …
Perheellisen naistohtoriopiskelijan arki, elämänkulku ja tulevaisuusajattelu
2014
Solutions to replace quantity with quality in science.
2012
In their recent letter, Joern Fischer and others [1xAcademia's obsession with quantity. Fischer, J. et al. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2012; 27: 463–474See all References[1] tackled one of the major problems in modern science: the obsession with quantity. Perspicaciously, they showed how targeting for quantity has faded out creativity and reflection from science. Fischer and others ended their letter with the words: ‘Starting with our own university departments (but not stopping there), it is time to take stock of what we are doing. We must recreate spaces for reflection, personal relationships, and depth. More does not equal better.’ Utopian as it may be, we applaud this statement.Unfortunately, Fi…
“Zaļās” un ilgtspējīgās pasaules uztveres koncepcija biznesa vides tekstos
2019
Pēdējo gadu laikā cilvēki arvien vairāk sāk pievērst uzmanību apkārtējās vides draudiem un sāk vairāk apspriest ilgtspējību un “zaļās” domāšanas tematus. Patērētāji izdara spiedienu uz industrijām, izvēloties atbalstīt ilgspējīgi domājošus uzņēmumus un pērkot “zaļās” preces, tādēļ šī pētījuma mērķis ir noskaidrot vissatbilstošāko vārdšķiru kosmētikas produktu aprakstos un saprast kurš uzņēmums atspoguļo “zaļo” domāšanu visvairāk. Literatūras apskats sniedz teorētisko pamatu empīriskās daļas veikšanai. Kosmētikas aprakstu izpētes gaitā tika secināts, ka no vārdiem, kuri ir saistīti ar ilgtspējību, visbiežāk izmantotā vārdšķira ir īpašības vārds, kā arī tika secināts, ka pastāv saikne starp E…
Introducing a strategic perspective in lean thinking applications through system dynamics modelling: the dynamic Value Stream Map
2020
PurposeLean Thinking is an operation management discipline which aims to identify, map and analyse the activities forming a process to detect “value waste” and outline the most effective flow of activities to execute in sequence. Process mapping is often developed in lean projects through the use of the Value Stream Map (VSM). Like many other management tools, the VSM adopts a static and non-systemic perspective in the representation of an organizational process. This may result in the implementation of Lean projects inconsistent with the overall organizational long-term strategy, thus leading to dysfunctional performance. In order to overcome this limit, the paper suggests combining VSM wi…
Life Experience, Values and Education
2016
The paper deals with the contemporary problems of education – its functions, mission, humanistic essence and need for the understanding of value. Education is not only school training or getting competences at the highest educational institutions. It is understood as a life experience, where cognition, judgement and practical activity come together in one complex. Nowadays the most popular systems of education are structured on the model based mainly on pragmatism, professionalism, information, technology, to which philosophers are trying to attach moral and cultural dimensions, but their views do not carry much weight. The author agrees with R. Dahrendorf that we need empathetic education …
Sustainability focused decision-making in building renovation
2017
Abstract An overview of recent research related to building renovation has revealed that efforts to date do not address sustainability issues comprehensively. The question then arises in regard to the holistic sustainability objectives within building renovation context. In order to deal with this question, the research adopts a multi-dimensional approach involving literature review, exploration of existing assessment methods and methodologies, individual and focus group interviews, and application of Soft Systems Methodologies (SSM) with Value Focused Thinking (VFT). In doing so, appropriate data about sustainability objectives have been collected and structured, and subsequently verified …
Integrative thinking is the key: An evaluation of current research into the development of adult thinking
2011
Post-formal relativistic-dialectical thinking has been widely claimed to be a new developmental stage of intellectual development. Other theoretical models come very close to post-formal thinking, with overlapping features such as the study of wisdom and epistemic understanding, as well as models of expertise, critical thinking, and scepticism. No coherent theory exists in the fields of post-formal and relativistic-dialectical thinking, though scholars have claimed that there is some similarity between the models. While empirical evidence of interconnectedness between them exists, a major difficulty lies in the theoretical definition of concepts. We critically assess the definitions of rel…