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FUNCTIONAL THINKING [5 records]

Record 1 2023-06-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of persons with a disability
CONT

A standard medical approach, indeed a common lay-person's approach, to thinking about disability involves viewing it as a problem that exists in a person's body. As a consequence, that individual is thought to require treatment or care to fix the disability, to approximate normal functioning, or perhaps as a last measure, to help the individual adapt and learn to function despite the disability. So construed, disability is primarily an individual' s medical problem in need of treatment.... this medical model of disability holds that "a person's functional limitations(impairments) are the root cause of any disadvantages experienced and these disadvantages can therefore only be rectified by treatment or cure. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie des personnes handicapées
CONT

Pour le modèle médical du handicap, [...] «le handicap est le problème d'individus désavantagés par leur état biomédical. Selon le modèle médical, les désavantages sont vus comme les résultats naturels et inévitables de simples faits biomédicaux.»

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-11-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Personality Development
  • Education Theory and Methods
DEF

By functional thinking we mean the inclination to model phenomena with functions. More specifically, the recognition that certain behaviors in a situation can be described and investigated by constructing and using mathematical functions. Thus, the functions are built for the purpose of investigating some situation and are not given a priori to the students. In addition, the functions so constructed are quite general, not necessarily defined by algebraic expressions, and not necessarily real valued functions of a real variable.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Développement de la personnalité
  • Théories et méthodes pédagogiques

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Behaviour
CONT

The functional autonomy principle suggests another way of thinking about human motivation, quite different from any other theory. In the mature personality, for instance, habits, skills and behavioral patterns originally developed for instinctual satisfaction may become self-motivating and independent from their historical causes.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Comportement humain

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-07-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
CONT

... pursuit of functional renewal, rather that thinking through a completely new approach.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
CONT

[...] le renouvellement fonctionnel, plutôt que l'implantation d'une méthodologie totalement nouvelle.

Spanish

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Record 5 1991-04-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Design
  • Engineering
CONT

Management of creative design. While the techniques of brainstorming, synectics and lateral thinking are comparatively well known they are not so commonly used as they might be.... Nor must the use of appropriate methodologies for functional tasks be neglected such as cost analysis, value engineering, and morphological analysis.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dessin industriel
  • Ingénierie
CONT

Méthodes dans le développement de produit. Créativité (...); Analyse de la valeur (...); Gestion de projet (...); Essais (...); Représentation graphique (...)

OBS

(...) plus aucune improvisation n'est possible dans le processus de développement de produit. Il faut désormais admettre qu'il existe une méthodologie rigoureuse à appliquer. (...) Figure 10 : Méthodes : Créativité; Design; Essais; Analyse valeur.

OBS

Dans ce contexte "méthodologie" a le sens "ensemble de méthodes" non pas "étude des méthodes". Voir aussi les fiches "créatique" et "créaticien".

Spanish

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