The Optimum Utilization Of Knowledge: Making Knowledge Serve Human Betterment

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Routledge, 2019 M06 26 - 386 páginas
We all have more knowledge than we use; even so, say the editors of this book, ignorance often governs our actions. Society continues to find ways to misuse knowledge–from manipulating information to gain political power to restricting what ideas are explored on university campuses. Thus, when some of the best minds in the country met to focus on the optimum utilization of knowledge, it was not an idle academic inquiry. In these proceedings from that conference, which was sponsored by the Academy of Independent Scholars, the contributors examine several of the key aspects of learning: the importance of knowledge in decision making, the role of our educational system and other systems in producing and disseminating knowledge, and the relationship between knowledge and the physiological, psychological, and cultural bases of the learning process. The misuse of knowledge–or the overuse of ignorance–the authors note, could threaten the existence of the entire planet, if the kind of thinking exemplified by the nuclear arms race prevails.

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Some Central Concepts Kenneth E Boulding
What Do We Mean by the Optimum Utilization of Knowledge? Fritz Machlup
WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT HUMAN LEARNING?
The Brain Cognitive Commodities and the Enfolded Order Karl H Pribram
Males and Females and the Learning Process Diane McGuinness
Implications for Educational Policy and Practice Herman T Epstein
The Impact of Cultural Diversity on the Spread of Knowledge Paul Bohannan
The Fear of Knowledge Rollo
Closing the Gap Between Frontier Thinking and the Curriculum Lawrence Senesh
APPLYING KNOWLEDGE TO DECISION MAKING
Closing the Gap Between Expanding Knowledge and Society Through Television in the U S Herbert Steinhouse
Knowledge as Entertainment Leo Bogart
Adapting Technology Knowledge to Social Needs Lloyd E Slater
Examples from Agriculture Vernon Ruttan
The Overutilization of Ignorance of Science and Technology in the Making of Public Policy Arthur R Kantrowitz
Knowledge James N Danziger

HOW TO APPLY THE KNOWLEDGE OF LEARNING TO EDUCATION 8 Formal and Informal Systems of Knowledge Mary Catherine Bateson
ConceptBased Learning Joseph D Novak
Strategies in Transmitting Knowledge in the School System Albert L Ayars
The Laboratory of Archimedes David Hawkins
Knowledge as a Manageable Resource in Educational Systems Elizabeth Wright Ingraham
An Obstacle to Its Full Utilization Robert D Beam
Bernard Roth
An Alternative to the Positivist
The Creation and Utilization of Knowledge in the Business Community W
About the Contributors
About the Academy of Independent Scholars
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Kenneth E. Boulding is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is a well-known author and past president of several organizations, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Economic Association. Lawrence Senesh, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is copresident and founding member (with Kenneth Boulding) of the Academy of Independent Scholars. He is also one of the founders of the Social Science Education Consortium. The academy was established in 1979 to provide a creative environment for retired scholars and for those whose independent scholarship does not fit the conventional niches of their institutions.

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