Balanced Thinking: An Educational Perspective for the 2000+ on the Basis of a Cross-Cultural German/Japanese Study

By: Schaefer, Gerhard

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082044359X
• ISBN13: 9780820443591
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
• Length: 206 Pages