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
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