You may not have decided yet what you want to be in the future. And you don’t have to decide right away. You do know that right now you are interested in sports and athletics. Do any of the statements below describe you? If so, you may want to begin thinking about what a career in sports might mean for you.
Value-Focused Thinking: A Path to Creative Decisionmaking
The standard way of thinking about decisions is backwards, says Ralph Keeney: people focus first on identifying alternatives rather than on articulating values. A problem arises and people react, placing the emphasis on mechanics and fixed choices instead of on the objectives that give decisionmaking its meaning.
Many developing countries are looking to scale-up what works through major systems strengthening investments. With leadership, conviction and commitment, systems thinking can facilitate and accelerate the strengthening of systems to more effectively deliver interventions to those in need and be better able to improve health in an equitable way.
Early Childhood Mathematics Education Research: Learning Trajectories for Young ChildrenThis important new book synthesizes relevant research on the learning of mathematics from birth into the primary grades from the full range of these complementary perspectives. Detailed descriptions of children's thinking as they learn to achieve specific goals in a mathematical domain, alongside a related set of instructional tasks designed to engender those mental processes and move children through a developmental progression of levels of thinking.
Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance. In Visual Thinking for Design, Colin Ware takes what we now know about perception, cognition, and attention and transforms it into concrete advice that designers can directly apply.
