•A creativity course based on a cognitive approach can increase students’ creativity.•Conceptual and procedural models of creativity can be the basis for an effective course.•The description of ...multiple pedagogical strategies can guide educators interested in developing their student’s creativity.•Quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the course’s relevance and effectiveness.
Because of the nature of their work, engineers are often asked to be innovative. This implies that they must possess and demonstrate creative abilities However, building an effective and valid course to develop participants’ creativity is not without challenges. Not aiming at educating specialists with a degree in creativity, we nonetheless believe future engineers could benefit from a deliberate development of their creative abilities. The goals of this paper are to (1) describe an innovative cognitive/metacognitive approach to enhance creativity as well as the pedagogical strategies underlining a creativity course for engineering students, (2) present the pre-post results measured with a revised version of the CEDA (Creative Engineering Design Assessment). We evaluated the creative performance of 59 students before and after a 45-hour creativity course. The students’ scores on four variables measured by CEDA—fluidity, flexibility, originality and usefulness—were statistically higher after the course than before. Students’ written comments provided further evidence of the course’s relevance and effectiveness. We concluded that students’ creativity was increased and that the course enabled a better understanding of creativity and how to foster it.
The traditional definition of party image as being distinct, fixed, and receiver-determined, has been replaced by the understanding that party image is invested with more dynamic and complex features ...and is dialectically constructed by discourse to influence public perceptions. By adopting Van Dijk’s socio-cognitive model of critical discourse analysis, this study explores party images and how they are discursively constructed in CPC’s political discourse on ecological civilization. The discourse analysis reveals that five images have prominently been constructed: the goal-setter of future blueprints, lesson-taker of past development pattern, the coordinator of ecology and economy, the determined fighter against environmental disruption, and the systematic governor of ecological path. They are constructed through varying linguistic devices such as recontextualization, high-frequency repetition, and conceptual metaphors. The images and their construction are born out of the social cognition, the outcome of political system, changes of historical conditions, economic status, and cultural model, among which the emerging Chinese ideology of ‘moderate green’, and the consistent ideologies man is an integral part of nature (天人合一, tian ren he yi), Doctrine of the Mean (中庸之道, zhongyong zhidao), people-centeredness, and collectivism play a dominant role. This study helps find the fluidity of party images.
This study aim to analyze the critical thinking level of mechanical wave in the students of MAN 2 Mataram through Cognitive Conflict Approach. This research is a pre-experimental study with design ...only pretest-posttest group design. The population in this study is all students of class XI MIA MAN 2 Mataram, amounting to 257 students. Research sampling using purposive sampling technique, so selected XI class MIA 1, XI MIA 2, and XI MIA 4 as an experimental class that will be given treatment in the form of cognitive conflict approach. Data collection of critical thinking ability is done by description test as much as 5 problem and at the learning process obtained through LKPD. The results of hypothesis test analysis using parametric test paired sample t test and show that Ho rejected and Ha accepted, while the level of critical thinking ability included in category is very high for class XI MIA 1 and high category for class XI MIA 2 and XI MIA 4. The conflict cognitive approach applied successfully to increase the critical thinking ability.
Positioned within intercultural pragmatics, particularly the salience theory of the Socio-cognitive Approach (SCA) proposed and developed by Kecskes (2008, 2013, 2017, and 2019), this article ...explores the role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) in salience adjusting in complaint responses in the context of intercultural phone interactions. Drawing on data from 42 recordings of English phone interactions between English speaking customers and Chinese agents of a complaint center of one Chinese airline, MPEs used in the interactions are analyzed to address two research questions: 1) What types of MPEs are used by the agents and customers in complaint responses? 2) How are these MPEs used to adjust salience in complaint responses to facilitate complaint settlement? Data analysis reveals that, faced with institutional, linguistic, and sociocultural constraints, the speakers mainly employ five types of MPEs to adjust the emergent situational salience of relevant information or knowledge, including business rules and regulations, language use, social-cultural knowledge, and emotional states. In salience adjusting, the agents tend to be information-oriented and institutionalized whereas the customers tend to be both emotion- and information-oriented, but highly personalized. The findings shed light on intercultural pragmatics and customer service training in business communication.
•The salience theory of the Socio-cognitive Approach (SCA) is used.•The role of metapragmatic expressions (MPEs) in salience adjusting is examined.•English phone interactions between English speaking customers and Chinese agents were investigated.•The agents were found to be information-oriented and institutionalized.•The customers were found to be both emotion- and information-oriented, but highly personalized.
Abstract The purpose of the present paper is twofold - first to highlight the shift of attention from linguistic towards cognitive approaches to metaphor translation within Translation Studies and ...then to use the procedures advanced within the cognitive framework to analyse a specialised corpus of economic and financial press articles published in The Economist.
•Examining the effects of multiple emerging market categories and a firms’ socio-cognitive environments on incumbent firms’ innovation efforts.•Taking a socio-cognitive approach to innovation, ...contextualizing firms' innovation efforts in the broader industry dynamics.•Finding an inverted-U shaped relationship between an increasing number of emerging market categories and a firm's R&D intensity.•The aforementioned curvilinear relationship is moderated by collective industry identity and presence of industry associations.
Industries with emerging market categories offer greater opportunities for firms to innovate. However, such opportunities are not a matter of “the more, the better.” An increasing number of emerging market categories poses a dilemma. While more emerging market categories arguably bring about increasing growth opportunities, they can also generate greater ambiguity for incumbent firms, which may hinder their innovation efforts. This study attempts to address this dilemma by proposing that the number of emerging market categories in an industry will have an inverted U-shaped relationship with incumbent firms’ innovation efforts. We further argue that this curvilinear relationship will be influenced by the socio-cognitive context of a firm's focal industry, in the sense that the degree of collective identity incoherence at the industry level will intensify the proposed inverted U-shaped relationship, whereas the prevalence of trade associations in the industry will depress this relationship. We test our hypotheses by examining research and development (R&D) investments of a sample of U.S. high-technology manufacturing firms and find support for our main prediction and the hypothesized effect of collective identity incoherence. We also find a surprising but intriguing moderating effect of trade associations.
Purpose. The article is devoted to the topic of formation functional literacy of secondary school students which is relevant in modern sociocultural conditions. The subject of analysis is the most ...effective methods and technologies of formation the students’ functional literacy. The author aims to present the main directions of management of the formation and assessment of functional literacy at the regional level (on the example of the Samara region).
Methods and methodology of the work. The research is based on the cognitive paradigm of education. The basis of the research is the cognitive approach and the corresponding principles of humanity and socio-consciousness.
Results. The results of the work are that the management of the formation and assessment of functional literacy at the regional level (on the example of the Samara region) is based on the coordinative actions of head of the educational organization, teachers, parents, as well as student’s psychological readiness to form functional literacy. The author makes the assumption that it is necessary to develop methodology and tools for the formation and development of criteria for assessing students’ functional literacy.
Practical implementations. The results of the study can be applied in the field of basic general and secondary general education.
•Speeding is an important cause of crashes and is more frequent among males than females.•We investigated gender social norms of judgment about speeding in two studies.•Speeding is valued more on the ...social utility dimension than the desirability-one.•Males less valuate speed limit compliance than females on social desirability.•The representation of the compliant driver should be improved, especially among males.
Introduction: Among risky driving behaviors, speeding is a main causal and aggravating factor of road crashes and is more frequent among males than females. Research suggests that this gender gap could be explained by gender social norms that lead males to assign more social value to speeding than females. However, few studies have proposed directly investigating gendered prescriptive norms associated with speeding. We propose to address this gap through two studies based on the socio-cognitive approach to social norms of judgment. Methods: Study 1 (N = 128, within-subject design) investigated the extent to which speeding is subject to social valuation among males, compared to females, through a self-presentation task. Study 2 (N = 885, between-subject design) aimed to identify the dimension of social value (i.e., social desirability, social utility) that both genders associate with speeding, based on a judgment task. Results and conclusion: Although results of study 1 indicate that both genders devaluate speeding and valuate speed limits compliance, we found that males do so to a lesser extent than females. Results of study 2 further suggest that males less valuate speed limit compliance than females on the social desirability dimension, while no gender difference were found in valuation of speeding on both dimensions of social value. Regardless of gender, results also indicate that speeding is valued more on the social utility than on the social desirability dimension, while speed limit compliance is valued similarly on both dimensions. Practical applications: Road safety campaigns toward males could benefit to focus more on enhancing the representations of speed compliant drivers, in terms of social desirability, than devaluing the representation of speeding drivers.
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