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Eugene Mccann - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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framing space and time in the city urban policy and the politics of spatial and temporal scale
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2003Co-Authors: Eugene MccannAbstract:ABSTRACT:This article seeks to analyze urban politics through the lens of the social Constructionist Approach to scale. This Approach views scale not as a set of pre-given, natural, and immutable l...
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framing space and time in the city urban policy and the politics of spatial and temporal scale
Journal of Urban Affairs, 2003Co-Authors: Eugene MccannAbstract:This article seeks to analyze urban politics through the lens of the social Constructionist Approach to scale. This Approach views scale not as a set of pre-given, natural, and immutable levels upo...
Antonio Sandu - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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appreciative philosophy towards a Constructionist Approach of philosophical and theological discourse
Social Science Research Network, 2011Co-Authors: Antonio SanduAbstract:The Constructionist Approach of philosophy includes an epistemic dimension and a pragmatic emphasis on the interdependence between knowledge and action in the social areas. Appreciative Approach to philosophy is based on the work of David Cooperrider on "Appreciative Inquiry", which is a form of pragmatic discourse that substitutes the focus on the problem with the focus on successful elements of previous experience of individuals, groups, organizations or communities. This experience can be integrated in the philosophical discourse starting from Plato's dialogues and maieutic method promoted by Socrates. Hermeneutic of the real seen as a philosophical reflection on the daily positive experiences falls into tradition of philosophical search of the ultimate meaning of reality. The appreciative speech starts from a postmodern view by a constructivist and Constructionist Approach, through which reality itself is a social construction generated by successive negotiations on accepted interpretations.Appreciative philosophy is centered on a semiotics grid that seeks positive qualities of existence and its strengths. Appreciative theology reveals a collaborative process between humanity and divine that catalyzes transformations in human being giving them life including eternal life. The communion human-Divinity is seen as a divine-human co-creation.
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appreciative philosophy towards a Constructionist Approach of philosophical and theological discourse
Journal for The Study of Religions and Ideologies, 2011Co-Authors: Antonio SanduAbstract:Abstract: The Constructionist Approach of philosophy includes an epistemic dimension and a pragmatic emphasis on the interdependence between knowledge and action in the social areas. Appreciative Approach to philosophy is based on the work of David Cooperrider on "Appreciative Inquiry", which is a form of pragmatic discourse that substitutes the focus on the problem with the focus on successful elements of previous experience of individuals, groups, organizations or communities. This experience can be integrated in the philosophical discourse starting from Plato's dialogues and maieutic method promoted by Socrates. Hermeneutic of the real seen as a philosophical reflection on the daily positive experiences falls into tradition of philosophical search of the ultimate meaning of reality. The appreciative speech starts from a postmodern view by a constructivist and Constructionist Approach, through which reality itself is a social construction generated by successive negotiations on accepted interpretations. Appreciative philosophy is centered on a semiotics grid that seeks positive qualities of existence and its strengths. Appreciative theology reveals a collaborative process between humanity and divine that catalyzes transformations in human being giving them life including eternal life. The communion human-Divinity is seen as a divine-human co-creation. Key Words: appreciative inquiry, appreciative teaching, constructionism, appreciative philosophy, appreciative theology Introduction Appreciative philosophy is centered on a semiotics grid that seeks positive qualities of existence and its strengths. Vicki Hammel1 in his thesis Appreciative Philosophy: the Emerging Context and the Transformative Power of Co-creation believes that appreciative philosophy is a collaborative creative process completed by a social construction based on the significant results of the dialogue between stakeholders. Appreciative Approach to philosophy is based on the work of David Cooperrider on "Appreciative Inquiry", which is a form of pragmatic discourse that substitutes the focus on the problem with the focus on successful elements of previous experience of individuals, groups, organizations or communities. This experience can be integrated in the philosophical discourse starting from Plato's dialogues and maieutic method promoted by Socrates. In the context of postmodern constructionism, themes of philosophizing are pretexts of discursive construction or deconstruction of structures of thought foreshadowed by questioning the meanings of their Approaches in the contemporary world. Philosophy is in its ultimate essence a problematical speech. The deconstruction of problematization, in our view, do not annihilate the philosophical concerns, but put them in relation with the individual experience which are interrogatively returned of the individual's very own experience, of sources and meanings of them. The destiny of applied philosophy is to put in the hands of those who are interested in, very different ways of understanding and interpretative instruments regarding the continuous negotiation of interpretations processes and principles underlying them, and how to decrypt the hidden meanings in the very process of interpretation2. Constructionism and postmodernism Constructionism is seen as part of the postmodern paradigm because of models relativization and reporting reality to negotiation of interpretations. Constructionist epistemology is through its structure close to postmodernism, to Lyotard's vision, according to which our picture of reality is a narration, a consensus of speech - considers Hacking3. The scientific discourse is a particular form of speech and can be analyzed in a Constructionist manner as textual analysis. Constructionism can be methodological used based on the importance of the epistemic subject in the social construction of truth4. The concept of truth has therefore significance in relation to a socially accepted fact or experience. …
Tomasz S. Ligeza - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards a Constructionist Approach to emotions: verification of the three-dimensional model of affect with EEG-independent component analysis
Experimental Brain Research, 2015Co-Authors: Miroslaw Wyczesany, Tomasz S. LigezaAbstract:The locationist model of affect, which assumes separate brain structures devoted to particular discrete emotions, is currently being questioned as it has not received enough convincing experimental support. An alternative, Constructionist Approach suggests that our emotional states emerge from the interaction between brain functional networks, which are related to more general, continuous affective categories. In the study, we tested whether the three-dimensional model of affect based on valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD) can reflect brain activity in a more coherent way than the traditional locationist Approach. Independent components of brain activity were derived from spontaneous EEG recordings and localized using the DIPFIT method. The correspondence between the spectral power of the revealed brain sources and a mood self-report quantified on the VAD space was analysed. Activation of four (out of nine) clusters of independent brain sources could be successfully explained by the specific combination of three VAD dimensions. The results support the Constructionist theory of emotions.
Miroslaw Wyczesany - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Towards a Constructionist Approach to emotions: verification of the three-dimensional model of affect with EEG-independent component analysis
Experimental Brain Research, 2015Co-Authors: Miroslaw Wyczesany, Tomasz S. LigezaAbstract:The locationist model of affect, which assumes separate brain structures devoted to particular discrete emotions, is currently being questioned as it has not received enough convincing experimental support. An alternative, Constructionist Approach suggests that our emotional states emerge from the interaction between brain functional networks, which are related to more general, continuous affective categories. In the study, we tested whether the three-dimensional model of affect based on valence, arousal, and dominance (VAD) can reflect brain activity in a more coherent way than the traditional locationist Approach. Independent components of brain activity were derived from spontaneous EEG recordings and localized using the DIPFIT method. The correspondence between the spectral power of the revealed brain sources and a mood self-report quantified on the VAD space was analysed. Activation of four (out of nine) clusters of independent brain sources could be successfully explained by the specific combination of three VAD dimensions. The results support the Constructionist theory of emotions.
Christa Flores - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Problem-based science, a Constructionist Approach to science literacy in middle school
International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 2017Co-Authors: Christa FloresAbstract:Abstract This paper describes a four-year observation using a model designed and tested in a middle school maker space, called problem-based science (PbS). PbS was used as the primary model for a middle school science curriculum adapted by the tools and mindsets of the maker movement. PbS is learning through inventing and problem solving — while using the latest in fabrication technology, like 3D printers and laser cutters, as well as more traditional making skills, like electronics, robotics, sewing and carpentry. PbS is based on Seymour Papert’s constructionism, set to a science curriculum taught full time in a makerspace or fablab. Bridging ideas in design thinking, maker education, and applied math and science, the term problem-based science was used to describe how learning would look, sound, and feel different in a makerspace, when a focus was on learner-centered curriculum. The design and testing of this curriculum took place as part of the 5th and 6th grade science courses offered at a private (non-public) school in California (USA) the fall of 2012, through the spring of 2016. Through daily formative assessment, as well as exit surveys, the patterns and benefits of learning in a self-directed learning space, designed for constructionism, were observed. This paper shares the highlights of those years. Video taped exit surveys conducted by the author, show that self-direction is both challenging and rewarding, students often felt trusted and respected, even if they did not always feel supported in a manner common in a more teacher directed classroom setting. Daily informal classroom observations revealed that using student driven, open-ended problem solving, rather than a 100% teacher led, step by step lab, lends to a more diverse pool of leadership practice in students and higher engagement in hard problems. Students typically seen as struggling in traditional classrooms, identified as experts and successful learners in this setting. Lastly, using PbS as a model for science literacy allows the youngest of learners to practice mindsets and habits typical of real scientists and inventors, fostering early identify formation in STEM fields.
