How do you make sense of the world and everything in it? Imagine possessing the ability to delve into the depths of why you make sense of existence and everything in it as you do and then act accordingly. Would you be able to move past current limitations, actual or perceived? Could you identify new opportunities you hadn’t seen before? Would you understand yourself, others and the world in a more comprehensive and accurate way? In a world overflowing with information, rife with confusion and inauthenticities, and where quick fixes and superficial solutions are commonly favoured, the key to genuine comprehension and sustainable change lies deep beneath the surface. In METACONTENT, Ashkan Tashvir takes you on an insightful journey into the intricate multi-dimensional aspects of sense-making: how we interpret complex information and experiences to create meaning and navigate the world. Failing to adhere to a comprehensive sense-making process leads to further confusion, misunderstandings, suboptimal decisions, decision paralysis and missed opportunities, impacting your ability to lead a fulfilling and effective life. Tashvir not only synthesises a range of insights from science and philosophy but also introduces a disruptive metacontent discourse that dispels the myths, explores the profound depths of sense-making and reveals the intricate layers that shape our understanding of everything from material reality to abstract ideas and manufactured constructs and institutions. Discover the groundbreaking Nested Theory of Sense-making. Central to this book, Tashvir reveals his Nested Theory of Sense-making for the first time. This original concept provides a structured multilayered approach for navigating life’s complexities and transforming your analysis and decision-making abilities. METACONTENT follows Tashvir’s best-selling books BEING, HUMAN BEING and BECOMING – The Emergence of Being.

Laying down a new path in biology teaching, this book explains how to enact a learning environment where meaning isn’t transmitted or discovered, but co-constructed. It shows how to provoke understanding with just diagrams and dialogue. It demonstrates how to see with systems theory & variation theory in practical detail. Inside you’ll find: · The recursive teaching model. An evidence-and-theory informed model for co-constructing meaning with students rather than just telling them or having them discover alone. · Detailed examples of my lessons. I show the exact diagrams I’ve drawn in a lesson and explain how I’ve drawn them step by step. I show the questions I’ve asked students, at what point in the lesson, and why. · A theory-informed how-to guide for planning explanations. I show how to explain biological concepts by applying the variation theory of learning and enactive cognitive science. This simple heuristic should cut your planning time while improving your students’ understanding. · A theory-informed how-to guide for encouraging conversation in lessons. You never know how students will interpret a new explanation so conversing with them is essential. Using a new model for conversation, I show how to keep everyone on the same page. Through examples from my lessons, I show the types of questions that allow a conversation to develop without becoming too open and inefficient. · A theory-informed how-to guide for co-constructing stock and flow diagrams. These diagrams have helped my teaching become more conceptual and conversational. I show how to read, design, and teach them with detailed lesson examples. There’s also an appendix of 37 diagrams I’ve used with my classes. · A new model of curricular content. I show that the curriculum is not just a list of content of equal weight. There are key ideas that give meaning to the rest of the curriculum. I explain the concept of “metacontent” and show how I apply it in detailed examples. o The first type of metacontent I explain is a set of systems principles that I share with students and discuss during every topic. These unifying principles avoid the feeling that biology is just a lot of facts to learn. o The second type is understanding understanding itself. I share a taxonomy of understanding that allows students to grasp what I expect of them in every topic. I provide example sentences for each level of understanding, questions I’ve asked to test my students’ understanding, and answers my students have given. · A way of seeing and being. Rather than a training manual with activities to follow, this book provides teachers with a new conception of teaching, learning, and acting together in the classroom. It exemplifies all the ideas in practice from real lessons in real teaching contexts. This book will give you a new and viable perspective on teaching and learning.

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