| Balanced Thinking: An Educational Perspective for the 2000+ on the Basis of a Cross-Cultural German/Japanese Study Contributor(s): Schaefer, Gerhard (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 082044359X ISBN-13: 9780820443591 Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Psychology - Mathematics - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 370.152 |
| LCCN: 00069013 |
| Physical Information: 206 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book, initiated by a comparative empirical study on ways of thinking in samples of German and Japanese students, picks up the old question of decision-making between contradicting needs. It analyses - stimulated by striking differences found in the way how the two populations treated the contradiction problem - the general problem of contradiction on the background of a polarity approach to life. On this background either/or decisions, although possibly scientifically correct and pushed forward under time pressure, may not be appropriate to the actual situation of life and thus be wrong . Either/or, neither/nor, and even as-well-as reactions should be regarded as relevant in contradictory situations. This free option is called Balanced Thinking. |