| Balanced Thinking: An Educational Perspective for 2000+ on the Basis of a Cross-Cultural German/Japanese Study Contributor(s): Schaefer, Gerhard (Author), Yoshioka, Ryoei (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631351399 ISBN-13: 9783631351390 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $83.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Educational Psychology - Mathematics - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 370.152 |
| 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. |