People intuitively understand that function and purpose are critical parts of what human-configured entities are about, but these notions have proved difficult to capture formally. Even though most geographical landscapes bear traces of human purposes, visibly expressed in the spatial configurations meant to serve these purposes, the capability of GIS to represent means-ends relationships and t...

There is a set of characterological attributes thought to be associated with developing success at critical thinking (CT). This paper explores the disposition toward CT theoretically, and then as it appears to be manifest in college students. Factor analytic research grounded in a consensus-based conceptual analysis of CT described seven aspects of the overall disposition toward CT: truth-seeki...

We probably have simplified matters too much. We tend to talk about systems thinking and practice as if we knew what they are. The fashionable call for "holistic" or "systems" thinking in ecological issues provides a major example. This much is certain: the quest for comprehensiveness, although it represents an epistemologically necessary idea, is not realizable. If we assume that it is realiza...

Developing multimedia courseware is considered very difficult. Both development process and implementation of the product seem to be difficult. In this article it is assumed that the complete life cycle including development and implementation has to organized consistently in order to deliver successful products. A framework of ways of thinking, modelling, working and controlling the developmen...