Question and Insight in Everyday Life

Richard Grallo

doi:10.5771/9781793643919

Summary

In Question and Insight in Everyday Life: A Blueprint for Transformative Problem Solving, Richard Grallo examines the nature and patterns of human problem solving. Grallo identifies four patterns of problem solving that together result in complex human learning and growth. The four patterns constitute a cycle that is transformative not only of problematic situations but of the problem solvers themselves. This book also explores the roles of questions, insights, the desire to know, and social trust in problem solving. Its conclusions apply equally to the problems of everyday life as well as to challenges that arise in educational, counseling, political, engineering, and science fields.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4390-2
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4391-9
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 182
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. 1. Figures No access
  2. Tables No access
4. Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. Initial Considerations No access
2. Problem Solving Is a Learning Process No access
3. Mental Events in Problem Solving No access
4. Patterns of Problem Solving and a Mode of Pause No access
5. The Four Patterns of Problem Solving in Functional Relation to One Another No access
6. Patterns of Problem Solving in Larger Contexts No access
7. Ensuring Problem Solving Quality No access
8. Additional Considerations: Predictions No access
9. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Goals and Objectives No access
3. Limitations No access
4. Setting a Context for Understanding No access
5. Pattern 1: Seeking Understanding by Considering Possibilities No access
6. Additional Considerations: Key Points and Implications No access
7. Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Some Background for Critical Thinking No access
3. Elements of Critical Thinking No access
4. Pattern 2: Factual Critical Thinking: When Possibilities Are Not Enough No access
5. Pattern 3: Values-Oriented Critical Thinking: When Truth Is Not Enough No access
6. Pattern 4: Deliberative Critical Thinking: When Good Intention Is Not Enough No access
7. Additional Considerations No access
8. Summary No access
9. Notes No access
1. Functions of Experience in Overview No access
2. Experience as Source and Resource for Learning No access
3. Experience as Testing Ground for Learning No access
4. Experience as Pause from Learning No access
5. Organization of Experience as Modes of Pause No access
6. Additional Considerations: Implications No access
7. Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. Overview of Larger Contexts No access
2. Personality as Context No access
3. Social Trust as Context No access
4. Culture as Context No access
5. History as Context No access
6. Additional Considerations: Key Points and Some Implications No access
7. Summary No access
8. Notes No access
1. Two Illustrative Examples: Overview No access
2. Epictetus No access
3. Locke and Latham’s High Performance Cycle No access
4. Additional Considerations: Key Points and Implications No access
5. Summary No access
6. Notes No access
1. Summary Remarks on Transformative Problem Solving: Introduction No access
2. Recapitulation of Major Themes of Chapters 1–6 No access
3. Clarification by Contrast No access
4. Additional Considerations: Implications No access
5. Summary No access
6. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 157 - 164
Glossary of Terms No access Pages 165 - 174
Index No access Pages 175 - 180
About the Author No access Pages 181 - 182