Unicist Reflection driven Education


Unicist Education 4.0

The discovery of the triadic functionality of intelligence introduces a structural shift in the understanding of human adaptive behavior and enhances the development of educational programs.

The unicist reflection driven education enhances the strategic approach of the participants through their exposure to maximal and minimum strategy building, root cause management of business problems, the development of destructive and non-destructive pilot tests and the learning of the management of fundamentals.

The purpose of reflection driven learning is to install an adaptive knowledge object in the mind of the learner.

This implies that concepts as behavioral objects drive the accommodation process to accept new aspects that were not managed before and integrate these new aspects in mind through an assimilation process which requires storing this integration in the long-term memory of individuals. (Click on the ebook to access)

Unicist reflection driven learning uses learning objects which are complex adaptive systems that have been designed to drive the learning processes of the learner without needing external guidance when working within functional learning environments.

A functional learning environment exists when there is a need of a specific knowledge to do something, the necessary capacities of an individual are available and accessible, and the learning objects have the necessary authoritative role to be accepted.

Learning objects cannot work when these conditions are exceeded and then the participation of a counselor becomes necessary to substitute these objects by personal action.

This is homologous to the autopilot of an airplane (paradigmatic example of an object) which needs to be substituted by the pilot when the conditions of the external environment exceed the possibilities of the object.

The Stages of Reflection Driven Learning

The research in the field of human learning led to the development of four stages to deal with the learning of the management of adaptive environments and the management of the root causes in these environments.

  • Homological Benchmarks – WHAT FOR
  • Specific Fundamentals – WHAT
  • Pilot Tests – HOW
  • Specific Reflection – WHY

Stage 1: Homological Benchmarks

This stage drives the definition of what is needed to be achieved. The participants need to find the picture of other experiences they had to work as homological benchmarks. By definition, there is no possibility to transfer experiences. An experience is necessarily a subjective perception.

Stage 2: Specific Fundamentals

After the guiding idea, WHAT FOR, has been defined, the approach to the learning objective can begin. This is necessarily focused on specific relevant aspects of a reality.

Stage 3: Pilot Tests

The pilot tests are real applications in the specific action field that is being learned or in homologous fields when the full real application is too risky. There are two types of pilot tests: destructive tests and non-destructive tests.

Stage 4: Specific Reflection

The specific reflection needs to produce improvements in the application process of what is being learned. It requires having a personal value adding approach in order to seek improvements.

The reflection process can be synthesized in the following steps:

Business Problem Solving

0 – Focus on the solution

1 – Dealing with projections
– Beta brainwaves suffice
– Destructive pilot tests

2 – Dealing with Introjections
– Alpha brainwaves are needed
– Non-destructive – Destructive pilot tests

Universal Problem Solving

3 – Dealing with integration
-Theta brainwaves are needed
– Non-destructive pilot tests

4 – Dealing with communion
– Gamma brainwaves are needed
– Results validation

5 – Dealing with the unified field

The reflection process is sustained by the Unicist AI Monitor that emulates the reflection process and drives the apprehension of the concepts that underlie business functions.

Emulating Reflection using Unicist Artificial Intelligence

Unicist Artificial Intelligence emulates the human reflection process to apprehend the concepts of complex adaptive systems and environments.

The Unicist AI Monitor allows developing solutions and learning from the pilot tests of their implementation until their functionality has been confirmed.

Its intelligence allows emulating solutions based on the unicist ontological structure of business functions using the rules of the unicist double dialectical logic that allow managing the dynamics and evolution of complex adaptive systems and environments.

The solutions are based on the ontogenetic maps of business functions that define their concepts and fundamentals. This information allows defining what is needed and comparing it with the actual state to define the actions that are necessary to achieve the established goals. The pilot tests of their implementation allow learning from the feedback.

The unicist artificial intelligence allows emulating the solutions of a complex adaptive system to build structural adaptive solutions. The use of the monitor requires managing the unicist strategy model, that emulates the intelligence of nature, to build maximal strategies to grow and minimum strategies to ensure results.

The main business applications are: Strategy Building – Business Intelligence – Business Process Management – Root Cause Management – Market Laboratories – Conceptual Design – IT Architecture Design – People Management – Business Scenario Building – Future Scenario Building – Business Education.

Emulating Solutions in Mind

Unicist Reflection requires having a final picture in mind, which means that the solution has to be emulated. It requires positive thinkers; individuals who see the bottle half full, not half empty.

The objective of emulating an action in mind before doing it, is to be able to have a maximal and a minimum strategy to ensure results.

The emulation process is based on apprehending the concept of the activity in order to have a behavioral object that is stored in the long-term memory to be used when necessary. It is based on the use of the unicist pilot test driven reflection process.

Reflection Driven Education Empowers Intelligence

The discovery of the triadic functionality of intelligence, that is based on the triadic functionality of the ontogenetic intelligence of nature, introduces a structural shift in the understanding of human adaptive behavior and enhances the development of educational programs towards driving people to assume a proactive role in the environment.

As human actions are driven by the concepts they have, conscious behavior begins by accepting that the concepts of what is being done have to be known. The discovery that ethics is in fact an intelligence that defines human intentions and evolves in the maturity process of an individual increased the level of transparency of human actions.

This opens the black-box of human behavior increasing the possibility of enhancing conscious behavior, by complementing the strategic intelligence and the logical type of thought,  that increases the level of adaptiveness of individuals which increases efficacy, the level of value generation and complementation in the environment.

Efficacy can be defined as the capacity of producing results responsibly. Since adaptive environments are continuously evolving and require a dynamic approach to deal with them, efficacy, in adaptive environments, requires having a strategy to ensure the production of results.

The conscious intelligence of individuals defines their adaptive capacity, that is materialized by the strategies they use to influence the environment while being influenced by it. It applies to any field of human actions.

The different levels of strategy -operational, non-influential, specific and universal- are inclusive and require achieving superior levels of consciousness. The synergy generated by the collective intelligence, in institutionalized environments, allows building strategic committees that permit integrating intelligences to build a functional strategy.

The basic condition to manage adaptive strategies is defined by the functionality of the ethical intelligence, that is required to manage a specific environment.

When the ethical intelligence used, is consistent with the one required by the environment, individuals are able to use their conscious intelligence to exert influence. If the ethical intelligence is not consistent, the development of the unicist reflection process, driven by destructive and non-destructive pilot tests, allows solving the problem and assuming an influential role.

The recovery of the brain after strokes demonstrated that only actions develop neural functions. This applies to any adaptive behavioral learning, which requires an action-reflection-action process.

Thinking allows using the intelligence an individual has, but hinders the development of new complementary functions to exert more influence while being influenced by the environment.

That is why thinking is functional when the level of adaptiveness of an individual suffices, while the development of a higher level of influence requires investing the necessary energy, in an action-reflection-action process, until the brain is able to emulate the new functions and to transform these emulations into results.

Unicist Teaching Hospitals in Business

Introduction

The human body is by definition a complex adaptive system. That is why medical practice can be considered a paradigmatic example of complex problem solving. Therefore, medical education can be used as a benchmark in the education of complex problem solving.

There is also no doubt that businesses, when successful, are intrinsically complex and adaptive. Therefore the management of the complex aspects of businesses is homologous to medical practice and the educational models should be homologous too.

Unicist Teaching Hospitals for Business in the Real World

The activities of Unicist Teaching Hospitals for Business are developed through Business Residencies and need to integrate three roles and one object. The three roles are:

  • The Chief-Resident is the coordinator of a Business Residency that has the full responsibility for the diagnoses and for achieving the results that have been defined as being possible to be achieved. The participants of the residency also have full responsibility for the results after they agreed that such results are possible.

  • The “Fallacy-Shooter” is the person responsible for guiding the action-reflection-action process in order to improve the accuracy of the diagnoses and of the work processes. This guidance is based on the development of destructive tests to confirm the limits of the validity of knowledge and non-destructive tests to validate solutions.

  • The “Ombudsman” is responsible for monitoring that the proposals respond to the functional needs of the solutions that are required; she/he is the business coach. The role represents the client as a “function” that is responsible for generating value to the environment. The responsible officers are the “owners” of the functions. 

Learning by Teaching

The learning process of the Business Residencies is based on a “Learning by Teaching” model. This model requires that the roles of fallacy-shooting and ombudsman are exerted by the participants of the residency.

Virtual Collaboration

The residencies are based on virtual collaboration. As conceptual knowledge is cross-cultural, it allows integrating counselors and experts of different parts of the world to ensure effective solutions and provide the necessary learning context and support to drive and catalyze the activity of the learners.

This requires following the technologies to deal with the nature of each problem and using the unicist superior education technology to manage the learning process of the participants.

Seen from the outside, the process appears extremely simple, because concepts are rationally obvious and the nature of a learning process responds to the nature of human evolution. From the inside, it requires following strict steps without making shortcuts.

These residencies are in fact productive business units that foster the learning of the participants. They are solutions and knowledge factories.

Unicist Education

The unicist educational approach has been developed to provide a methodology for superior education.

It is based on the goal of providing a learning process to allow individuals to deal with complex problems in adaptive processes. Adaptiveness is defined as the capacity of an entity to influence an adaptive environment while it is being influenced by it.

The unicist education model is based on five pillars:

  1. A learning context is required before a learning process begins. Learning processes in adults require the existence of a real problem to be solved.
  2. An adaptive learning contract that defines the guiding idea of the learning process and the conditions of the teaching and learning activities.
  3. The development of business residencies, which are homologous to medical residencies, where the unicist reflection methodology is used to develop solutions.
  4. The use of learning objects that allow managing the personalized learning program of participants.
  5. The teacher’s role that is focused on ensuring the development of solutions while driving learning activities.

Difference between Professional and Superior Education

Unicist education is based on learning processes that are analogous to “teaching hospitals” based on real complex problem solving. The unicist educational model is a superior education model that deals with the learning of logical tools and business objects.

A comparison between Superior Education and Professional Education will clarify the guiding idea, and the difference between the Unicist Education and the Professional Education:

Aspect

Unicist Education

Professional Education

Educational FrameworkTeaching Hospital / ClinicsWorkshops / Seminars / Courses
Educational ModelComplex Problem SolvingSystemic Problem Solving
Learning ApproachAction-Reflection-Action
(Emulating in mind)
Theory-Practice
(Reasoning driven)
Problem Solving ApproachFocused on ResultsFocused on Objectives
Future ForecastingLogical Inferences / Delphi GroupsProjections / Delphi Groups
KnowledgeLogical & Empirical ApproachEmpirical Approach
Type of ToolsConceptual ToolsAnalytical Tools
Business PlanningStrategic ApproachAnalytic Approach
Dominant type of AnalysisFundamental AnalysisTechnical Analysis
Risk ManagementBased on PossibilitiesBased on Probabilities
Business ProcessesAdaptive SystemsOperational Systems