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- Bierschenk, Bernhard, et al.
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Competence as a prerequisite for the attainment of life quality
- 1998
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities – Issues and Perspectives. ; , s. 25-32
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper describes differences between the capacity of Swedish and Danish students to attain life quality. This was carried out by examining the level of competence in four different groups of Swedish and Danish students, and is based on the hypothesis that the possession of competence is a premise for the development of life quality. Competence means the ability to make sense in complex situations; more concretely it is the quality on the basis of which the individual activates his or her knowledge base and co-ordinates his or her actions. This definition implies that competence is a synthesis of perception and action, both of which can be detected and studied. The test method used in the present experiment involves the individual's perception of information, adaptation and preference between three different model societies, projected via series of slides. An account will be given of the individual’s ability to pay attention to the phenomenon of self-recognition within these societies. The paper demonstrates that purposeful adaptation and preference in judgement give certain clues to the mental states of the participating students. The result of the examination was remarkable. For the first time in twenty years of using the same test method, the scores of a participating group vary considerably from the norms. Values that normally turn out positive were instead negative. The experiment reveals that a sample of Danish students was incapable of distinguishing between different used models in the test material. At the present time according to our test method they are incompetent.
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- Bierschenk, Bernhard, et al.
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Die Ökologie des Sprachraums
- 1996
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Ingår i: Computerunterstützte Inhaltsanalyse in den Empirischen Sozialwissenschaften. Theorie - Anwendung - Software. - 9783893254149 ; , s. 11-31
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The dominating property of the present report concerns an approach, which is exclusively based on discontinuities as the reliable observations. In what way the presentation is designed and the main assumptions are formulated is described within an ecological context. Furthermore, a system of computer programs constitutes the background for reflection. A perspective, oriented on the environment, is extricated through effective evolutionary processes, bifurcation, and loss of stability. With the achieved results, it is demonstrated that various context dependent structures and sub-structures have been differentiated and established. Finally, in its dealing with problems of complexity, the significance of the ecological approach has been made evident with the aid of model-oriented and topological expressed references to the well-known “Visual Cliff” experiments.
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- Bierschenk, Bernhard, et al.
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Perception and judgement of life quality across projected societies
- 1998
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quality of Life in Cities – Issues and Perspectives. - 9810401264 ; 1, s. 17-24
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The focus of the presentation is on the individual’s comprehension of “citizenship”. Study and analysis of citizenship concerns a person’s co-operative interaction with various physical and social surroundings as well as the cognitive integration of these surroundings. A person can achieve this integration through development of his abilities of judgement. Thus the aim is to make apparent the kinds of judgement that have been manifested on the basis of three different sequences of episodes modelling modern live and citizenship. These sequences refer to “Projections for the Future”, which is an audio-visual slide series that has been produced commercially by the Biological Science Curriculum Study of Boulder, CO in co-operation with Crystal Productions of Seattle, CA. This company has produced differently coloured slide series of individual-environment interactions that were built on extrapolated trends and tendencies in the USA of the 197’s. These projections have been studied scientifically in the Swedish as well as in the Danish Societal context.
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- Bierschenk, Bernhard, et al.
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Perspektivische Textanalyse
- 1993
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Ingår i: Sozialwissenschaftliche Methoden : Lehr- und Handbuch für Forschung und Praxis. - 3486224700 ; 3, s. 175-203
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- To an ever-increasing extent, in scientific investigations of various kinds are data collected, which consists of verbal expressions. They may have been generated through verbal presentations, personal interviews, open questions or written accounts. Therefore, it is not unusual that an investigator is confronted with data collections that appear to be “unstructured” and of an extent that it seems to be an insurmountable task to extract the information content with so-called informal methods, like content analysis. However, those difficulties can be bridged over with a discussion of the function of language. But this would require a stance on a strategy that can cope with the cognitive ability of the individual information provider, i.e., to express an idea or an opinion, without loosing in formal capacity and stringency.
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- Bierschenk, Bernhard, et al.
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Stability and change in the development of knowledge
- 1997
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the Conference on Uncertainty, Knowledge and Skill. ; 1
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution is about an entirely new approach to the study of knowledge. As an introductory remark, the classical research operations in the field of cognition are reviewed. Against this background, an application of David Hestenes theory of rotational dynamics is demonstrated with particular reference to text processing. Based on the mechanism of joints and links of the AaO machine, angular displacements and the control of textual movement patterns are topologically presented. In the discussion, it is made evident that the presented approach carries more ecological validity than is reflected through all previous methodological attempts of giving a precise measure of attitude change in the development of text.
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- Bierschenk, Bernhard
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The metaphor as instrument for naming the terminal states of ecological invariants
- 1991
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Implicit figuration and subjective interpretation make up the conventional basis of the classical discussion of the omprehensiveness and aesthetic quality of the metaphor.Its function and use in Social Science is illustrated as a background to a radical different methodological approach. By means of Perspective Text Analysis it is demonstrated that the metaphor has to be conceived as the Re-naming Instrument. The hypothesis tested is that the metaphor carries ecological information. The results of the analysis show that the metaphor has to be treated as a self-contained verbal expression of affordance. By narning the affordance, i. e. what object and events in the environment offer, events of a certain kind are brought into perspective.
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