「考える」には順番があります。
考えるステップには次の三つの効果があります。
1、考える向きを整えてくれる
2、考える順番を教えてくれる
3、考えるための質問(型)をくれる
今、時代が大きく変化しています。
時代が大きく変化している時に大切なことの一つは、自分で考えて、自分で決めて、自分で判断できることだと思います。
とくに何かを決めるときに、そのステップを知っていることは大きな武器です。
何をどの順番で考えていったらいいのかというのは、意思決定(decision-making process)と呼ばれ、学ぶことができます。
自分で決めることができると自信が生まれます。
今度、大学で意思決定について教えることになったので、ここでも紹介させていただきたいと思いました。このコースでは、何かを決める際に、どの順番で何を考えていけばいいのかについて効果的に「考えるため」の型と順番について学びます。
《Coure Descriptions》
Understanding and knowing the ways and steps to collect and analyze the information and be able to make sound judgement and responsible decisions has become such an important skill and asset in academic life, work-settings and our life in today’s complex, uncertain and fast-changing world.
The overall aim of this course is to equip students with the abilities to make informed and thoughtful decisions by utilizing and examining the information made available by media critically and productively.
By using Spencer Johnson’s book ’Yes or No The Guide to Better Decisions’, students will learn the steps of an effective decision-making process, namely collecting and gathering information; identifying the options or alternatives; checking the assumptions and evidence; examining possible scenarios for each option; discerning what matters; choosing and taking actions; and making an objective reflection.
Some of the questions we will look at to improve our decision- making processes are: do I have enough information in order to make an informed and effective decision? Where do I go to obtain the missing information? What alternatives or options does this piece of new information imply or tell us?
This course will also look at the ‘ten instincts’ (Factfulness by Hans Rosling) that tend to distort our perspectives of the world and prevent us from seeing how actually it is.
Participants will practice, examine and apply those concepts, frameworks and steps through in-class exercises and assignments in a form of pair work, group work, reports and presentations.
Due to the experiential and participatory nature of the course, the course requires participants’ engagement to create and nurture a respectful learning environment.
《Goals》
By the end of this course, participants will:
(1) Understand the importance of examining and making the effective use of the information in order to make sound judgement and informed decisions;
(2) Have better understanding of an effective decision-making process;
(3) Develop awareness of possible biases and instincts to affect our perspectives.
《Schedule》
【1】Introduction to the Course and Learning Guides: Learning how to ‘learn’
【2】 How ‘fact-ful’ are we?- Examining instincts and biases that influence our perspectives
【3】Tools to Express Opinions(circle process)1: Procedure, process and practice
【4】 Tools to Express Opinions(circle process)2: Procedure, process and practice
【5】 Decision-making process1: Collecting and Analyzing Information
【6】Decision-making process2: Questioning and Reviewing Information
【7】Decision-making process3: Questioning and Reviewing Options and Assumptions
【8】 Decision-making process4: Understanding Values and Needs
【9】Decision-making process5: Creative Questioning and Reflection
【10】 Empathy and Perspective-taking: Interviewing
【11】Presentations(1)
【12】Presentations(2)
【13】Presentations(3)
【14】Presentations(4)
【15】Reflections on the Course and Summary
《Text Book》
Spencer Johnson(1993) Yes or No: The Guide to Better Decisions, William Morrow Paperbacks.
《Reference Books》
Pranis, Key(2015). Little Book of Circle Processes: A New/Old Approach To Peacemaking , Good Books.
Rosling,Hans(2018). Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World – And Why Things Are Better Than You Think, Sceptre. Schirch, Lisa and Campt (2015).
The Little Book of Dialogue for Difficult Subjects, Good Books.
リック ウォレン(2015) 『人生を導く5つの目的―自分らしく生きるための42章』パーパスドリブンジャパン
スペンサー ジョンソン(2015)『1分間意思決定 ― 決断力が身につくた った1つのルール』ダイヤモンド社
ハンス&オーラ・ロスリング(2019)『FACTFULNESS(ファクトフルネ ス) 10の思い込みを乗り越え、データを基に世界を正しく見る習慣』 日経BP社