Models have become essential for the development of human knowledge. They are the methods we follow, in order to simplify and understand more easily the realization of certain tasks involving the different fields of knowledge. When a method of thinking and way of achieving a certain goal becomes popular, the rest of the community adopts it. Hence, as soon as a method of thinking becomes predominant over another, it is said to have become a model. For example, we can consider mathematical formulas, scientific procedures, and even our way of living, areas in which a distinct model is followed. A model can be a theory or scheme used to consider a certain set of information within the same field, which is presumed to be the only logical method intended for the progress of this specific task. (For instance, a cooking recipe.) However, someone can find this model unsuitable. Therefore, they decide to break the scheme and proceed to develop a new method. Moreover, those people who create new paradigms (models), are considered rebels and extreme radicals. Subsequently, can someone define a boundary between; how much of the existing theories (paradigms) are valid; if they can be modified or if new ones can be brought about?
We humans, don’t only live the “day by day”, but live hopping to learn more, become better and find the easiest way of doing things, in order to go on with our lives, without complications. Human beings, by nature, are creatures who learn by mimicking others and their actions are influenced by past experiences. We are afraid of the unknown and have the need for certainty, therefore, knowing about things before hand provides us with security. During the years, human beings have enriched their minds with knowledge, and...
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... in which they play a vital role in our development. In a general perspective they function as tools that provide the necessary structure for our progress. They have contributed to our learning by accumulating past and present knowledge, allowing us to plan ahead. However, to which point, is allowing paradigms to rule our lives the correct way of living. In spite of this, the challenge we are faced with today is the elimination of some models and/or the creation of new ones, which continue to provide us with the necessary confidence and support so as to, ensure successes. But, at the same time, have the flexibility and intelligence to evolve with the changing times. Hitherto, having a model does facilitate the acquisition of knowledge. Nonetheless, paradigms also limit the expansion of it, due to the fact that, to some extent, they diminish people’s creativity.
Knowledge can be the key to success and can lead people to happier life. However, there are some instances that you can not gain any more knowledge because of how it would change your whole life. The drive of wanting more and more knowledge is best portrayed through two well -known books. In Mary Shelley’s, Frankenstein, and in Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon, both the creature and Charlie are ostracized by society because they are different from everyone else but this distinction gave way for distinct fallouts because of their quest for knowledge beyond their reach to achieve happiness.
theories can be defined as a way that a student grows, progresses, or increases his or her
Although the book has many stories to tell, all with something in common but yet with a different feature, the point of the book was to not only educate the world about these situations but to also give us real scenarios that we all can relate to in some sort of fashion. This book is about the human mind and the abstractness of our visions and memories. Everything affects us physically and mentally. We all share a common feature; we are all simply human with simple human minds.
From infancy to adulthood, organisms are always learning. The conscious and the subconscious are taking in information and sorting it, discarding irrelevant information and storing the relevant. The most common mode of gaining knowledge is through repetitions and memorization. These methods are effective for knowing exact definitions but do not develop understanding. In O Americano Outra Vez, Richard Feynman describes his teaching experiences while at the Brazilian Center for Physical Research. There he discovers the flaw in the modern education system, students are memorizing material but are unable to apply it to a real life scenarios, demonstrating they are gaining knowledge but not understanding it. Similar to Feynman’s Brazilian class,
We know where we have been, where we are now and where we need to go - but how do we get there? A map. Theory is a map. It notes any number of known landmarks (previously achieved or applied solutions) and obstacles (issues or problems) and gives us direction so that we are able to navigate intelligently and arrive safely (minimal discomfort to all) at our destination (desired outcome/s).
Our knowledge is a key to our success and happiness in our life to give us personal satisfaction. Knowledge is power but not always. Sometimes our self-awareness and growth as an individual gives us negative thoughts that make us want to go back to undo it. Everyone wants to unlearn a part in our life that brought us pain and problems. Good or bad experiences brought by true wisdom can be used for our self-acceptance, self-fulfillment and these experiences would make us stronger as we walk to the road of our so called “life”, but Douglas’s and my experience about knowledge confirmed his belief that “Knowledge is a curse”. Both of us felt frustrated and sad from learning knowledge.
Teaching Games For Understanding Model is the topic that I researched. This teaching model was created by Rod Thorpe and David Bunker from Loughborough University. The abbreviation for Teaching Games For Understanding Model is TGFU. This model was made for students to help educate them about the games they play in Physical Education. This learning model does not reflect on the performance from the student. It focuses on teaching student’s skills and key concepts in the classroom. There are six stages in TGFU that specifically target an important skill or concept that the student needs. The following six stages are Game Form, Game Appreciation, Tactical Awareness, Decision Making, Skill Execution, and Performance. All of these stages combine to make one goal of educating students with the skills and concepts they need in Physical Education, sports, and life.
...Our ability to be flexible in our thought and adapt them to new situations is how we change in modern society. Changes in thoughts and action creates solution, it makes a difference to other individuals and society. Thought alone cannot make any progress but if you apply thought and action to solve problems then you can produce a change. The experimental method teaches people how to use science and relate it to facts and values, as a method of reaching solutions to problems. Also the action of talking, thinking and drawing inferences, responding and providing feedback improves the relationship. This method works in every aspect of our lives; we use this method when forming relationships with others. When we learn from past experiences and work together with each other, we can relate with each other, we can learn from each other and better our understanding.
A paradigm as defined in the dictionary is an example serving as a model. In his book, 7 habits of highly effective teens , Sean Covey compares paradigms to glasses and says that if the paradigm, or perception, is incomplete it is like wearing the wrong prescription. One example Covey gave is:
Paradigms are belief systems that establish our actions patterns, practices and thoughts. Webster Dictionary defines paradigm as "an example or pattern: small, self-contained, simplified examples that we use to illustrate procedures, processes, and theoretical points." The most quoted definition of paradigm is Thomas Kuhn 's (1962, 1970) concept in The Nature of Science Revolution, paradigm as the underlying assumptions and intellectual structure upon which research and development in a field of inquiry is based. My understanding of Kuhn’s quote is that paradigms are a set of scientific theories that are well
Albert Einstein said, “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” This new manner of thinking should be based on pre-existing knowledge. This pre-existing knowledge is necessary because it is the catalyst that pushes the human race forward, making us want to discover more. Trying to discover completely new knowledge would not yield the same results. Basing your research off what you already know allows you to compare the new data that you collected to the old data that is already present. If you discover something new you will have nothing to compare it with. This does not allow you the luxury of seeing if what you discovered was an improvement. This essay will examine how important it is to discover new ways of thinking about prior knowledge than it is to discover new facts. I believe that using prior knowledge to push discovery is much more important than trying to discovers new data or facts.
In life, many things are taken for granted on a customary basis. For example, we wake up in the morning and routinely expect to see and hear from certain people. Most people live daily life with the unsighted notion that every important individual in their lives at the moment, will exist there tomorrow. However, in actuality, such is not the case. I too fell victim to the routine familiarity of expectation, until the day reality taught me otherwise.
A theory is a way organizing and systematizing what is known about a phenomenon. It is, in fact, “a rationalized set of assumptions or hypotheses that provides a person with tools that can be utilized to explain the past and predict the future” (Johnson, 2000). Therefore, theories provide direction and when tested and supported, can assist in expanding our knowledge.
The word theory emanated from the Greek word meaning “contemplate” It has been viewed by scholars in different ways. Theory can be defined literally as an explanation of phenomena and its associations with variables that it is attempting to predict. There are no general agreed definitions of theory because scholar’s views of what constitute theory differ based on the purpose, nature and what make up of a good theory (Gelso, 2006; Harlow, 2009; Stam, 2007, 2010; and Wacker 1998). For instance, Wacker, (1998), pointed out that a theory must have four basic criteria such as conceptual definitions, domain limitations, relationship-building, and predictions. He, also, opined that for any theory to be regarded as a good theory, it must have qualities for `good ' theory, such as “uniqueness, parsimony, conservation, generalizability, fecundity, internal consistency, empirical riskiness, and abstraction, which apply to all research methods” (p.364). Stam (2010) interpreted theory as ...
Many people on earth desirably endeavor to understand others, however, even when they do not have the liabilities of leadership. For instance they need to understand the behavior of their friends , relatives or even their other concerned ones . By observing the behavior of others, people need or want to understand and even to influence their own behaviors. If we pay heed to our own perception, we may learn that from time to time, all of us behave inopinately and may also behave admirably. It then became our problem in understanding that why we behave as we do? This inquisitiveness led people to understand different aspects of life and persons, under the field of Psychology (the scientific study of mind and behavioral characteristics