Session Information
10 SES 13 B, Analysis of Teacher Educators’ Discourse in Urban Education
Symposium
Contribution
In the so-called knowledge and information society (KIS), the purpose of education should be to develop the ability of the student or worker to create new knowledge and within an autonomous, creative and lifelong learning process. As the economic activity of our former industrial society has evolved to fit today’s knowledge and information society, which is mainly urban, so has the greatest value of our organizations. Nowadays, a firm’s most valuable asset is the knowledge of its workers; - that “experiential knowledge”, in this urbanized society, that is so rarely shared with other workers and, more often than not, gets lost when key members of the workforce retire, change jobs or die. Thus, we need the tools and methodology to enable us to tap and preserve such knowledge. In this context, one way to facilitate and optimize the expert-knowledge tapping process is by concept mapping. Cmap Tools, a software package developed at the prestigious Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), not only enables the creation of spectacular and original knowledge models, it is also an excellent resource for organizing and handling large amounts of knowledge and information within the urban context in which these are frequently developed.
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