I think, therefore I am resistant to change

Journal of Staff Development;  January 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......and Rosalie Torres (1999) describe mental models as a set of personal opinions, perceptions...manifested in opinions we hold" (p. 66). Mental models are powerful because they frame and...upon their world. However, not all mental models are functional or correct. Change requires...

The Essence of Safety: What's in your mental model?

Professional Safety;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......to realign individual and corporate mental models regarding safety, and to close that...it is and what others think it is. Mental Models: At the Root Variations in perceptions...in large part, from our reliance on mental models. These are constructs of reality shaped...

Teacher Education Students' Reflections on How Problem-Based Learning Has...

The Teacher Educator;  April 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Students develop robust mental models of teaching and learning during their...students' reflections on changes in their mental models following their experiences in a problem-bas...evidence that students do report changing mental models in areas such as (a) the value of case...

Parables of technological literacy

Journal of Engineering Technology;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......technologically literate person because cur mental models of technological literacy are inadequate...Discipline Peter Senge describes mental models and discusses how these models influence our actions.1 Mental models help us organize and integrate...

How we learn - and how to make learning more meaningful

Journal of Staff Development;  October 1, 2003 ;     527 words ......discussed. The authors stress changing mental models first within oneself and then with a group. Mental models are personal theories that drive us...authors first explain the importance of mental models in professional development work...

Shared Cognition in Organizations

Personnel Psychology;  July 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......David M. Messick (Editors). Shared Cognition in Organizations...see an edited volume on shared cognition in organizations...conference by the same title, Shared Cognition in Organizations...tendency of groups to discuss shared information at the expense...of newcomers acquiring shared ...

LEADERSHIP METAPHORS ARE GREAT, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO WITH THEM?

Journal of Staff Development;  October 1, 2006 ;     685 words ......readers. Much is written in the literature on organizational and individual performance about mental models. Mental models drive performance. Mental models often present themselves in the form of metaphor. Yet Cherry and Speigel don't mention...

Applying Mental Models to Qualitative Risk Assessment at the Tar Creek...

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......qualitative assessment of the site that uses mental models identifies other potential contaminants...may require further investigation. Mental models structure judgments about hazards and...required. A qualitative assessment using mental models can provide insights into other ...

Mental models of elementary and middle school students in analyzing simple...

School Science and Mathematics;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......The items were used to explore the mental models that grade 3-8 students use in explaining...bulb circuits. Consistency of applying mental models in different, but equivalent, circuits...direction was categorized into one of two mental models: (1) bidirectional and (2) ...

Mental models and lifelong learning

Innovations in Education and Training International;  November 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...SUMMARY The development of mental models is the underlying `driving...and subsequent adaptation of mental models takes place throughout a human...richness' of an individual's mental models usually increases with his...

Preferred mental models in reasoning about spatial relations

Memory & Cognition;  December 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The theory of mental models postulates that individuals infer...mental model of the layout, but real mental models contain, not words in English...We use such diagrams to denote mental models throughout the present article...

When phantom rules rule

FDM;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Senge devotes an entire section to "mental models." He makes the point that we live in...are for the most part untested. Our mental models are the foundations we use to make...that supports previous beliefs. What mental models do you operate under? What are the...

Enter a forest of ideas to learn how people think

Journal of Staff Development;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Collectively, these thoughts and feelings are called mental models. An important goal for staff development is changing unhelpful or dysfunctional mental models. To change mental models is, in author Howard Gardner's language...

Establishing important framework.

Supervision;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......collective assumptions, or mental models that are unquestionably...not easily discerned. The shared mental models that rest at the fundament...can correctly assume our mental models will not accurately reflect...to utilize the power of mental models by bringing ...

The importance and challenge of managing the business culture.

Supervision;  May 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......collective assumptions, or mental models that are unquestionably...not easily discerned. The shared mental models that rest at the fundament...can correctly assume our mental models will not accurately reflect...to utilize the power of mental models by bringing ...