Knowing What You Don't Know

Knowing… What You Don’t Know : Knowing… What You Don’t Know


Slide2 : Knowing What You Don’t Know… in new situations/ideas during change when collaborating in problem solving in problem prevention


Slide3 : Easy! Just look around you… BUT The mind gets in the way…


Worldviews : Worldviews Beliefs Assumptions Values Who? What? When? Why? How? Mental Health Warning!


Slide5 : How do you see the world?


Slide6 : What is a Worldview?


Slide7 : Questions… Who? What? Why? When? How? Forming a Worldview: Step 1 As we look onto the world we seek meaning about what we see…


Slide8 : Using… Senses Reason Authority Intuition Revelation Forming a Worldview: Step 2 We use a range of sources to explain what we see…


Slide9 : Collecting data and forming… Beliefs Assumptions Values Facts Theories Knowledge Forming a Worldview: Step 3 We collect information about the world we see…


Slide10 : Organise ‘answers’ into… Mindsets Belief Systems Paradigms Worldviews Ideologies Forming a Worldview: Step 4 We find relationships and structure our ‘answers’… into worldviews.


Slide11 : In 1790 French scientists concluded that meteorites were lightning… ‘Purple’ Worldview Worldviews change our expectations and filter our perceptions.


Slide12 : In the 16th C Amerindians with no concept of boats or sailing could not see the boats of the Spanish Conquistadors... ‘Orange’ Worldview “The eye is blind to what the mind does not see.”


Slide13 : A “Red Planet” or a Red Worldview? Is NASA “colour correcting” photo’s from Mars? The European Space Agency doesn’t. NASA Colours? and Why Isn’t the Martian Sky Blue… or


Slide14 : A worldview is: a set of assumptions which may be true or false which we hold consciously or subconsciously about the world around us


Slide15 : Ancients Earth, Air, Fire, Water Socrates (470-399BC) Asked questions Plato (427-327BC) Theory of ideas Aristotle (384-322BC) Logic, Physics  Traditionalism Who am I? Where did the world come from? What is it made of? Plato and Socrates


Slide16 : Rationalism Logic and Mathematics lead to knowledge Empiricism Sensory experience leads to objective knowledge Mechanism Clocks, machines show how things work  Modernism The struggle to free philosophy and science from theology René Descartes (1596-1650) Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Isaac Newton (1643-1727)


Slide17 : 21st Century - 2005 17th Century Mechanistic Worldview


Slide18 : Metaphors Brains ticking away Switched on thinkers Learning objects It didn’t compute Wheels of change Machinery of government Runs like clockwork Wired up Mechanistic Worldview


Slide19 : Crisis in Physics There is no ‘objective’ observer Existentialism Criticism of positivism, rationalism, empiricism Critical Theory Mind and culture influence knowledge  Postmodernism Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) Albert Einstein (1875-1955) Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Friedrich Nietzsche (1800-1899)


Slide20 : Contradictory Worldviews?


Slide21 : Complementary Worldviews? Religious – Scientific – Spiritual Traditionalism - Modernism – Postmodernism Newtonian – Systems – Quantum Indigenous – Eastern – Western Atomism – Systems – Holism


Slide22 : We have many ways of seeing the world around us Which coloured lens are you using?


Slide23 : Socratic Method Religious Medievalism Logic Rationalism Empiricism Meditation Romanticism Logical Positivism Existentialism Aestheticism Psychology Systems Theory Postmodernism Phenomenology Transpersonal knowing Which should we use? Integral Theory says “all of them” If we do not include them all in our thinking we will only have a partial understanding.


Slide24 : 1: Mechanistic Worldview "The world is a machine." 2: Systems Worldview "The world is a system." 3: Transpersonal Worldview "The world is a field of energy and consciousness." Integral Theory  All three Source: www.martinleith.com 2004


Slide25 : 4 Quadrant Integral Theory Individual (Singular) Collective (Group) Objective (Outer) Subjective (Inner)


Slide26 : All approaches are valued Integral Map of Love


Slide27 : All approaches are valued Integral Map of Gaming


Knowing What You Don’t Know… : Knowing What You Don’t Know… Use a Conceptual Framework


Knowing What You Don’t Know… : Knowing What You Don’t Know… Student-Directed Inquiry 2008 Hobart College