Culture, Worldview, and Origins Video Course Content:
Section I. Introduction, Section II. Culture, Section III. Worldview/Philosophy, Sections IV & V Models of Science; moving through the sequence, these sections will enable the viewer to:
1. Recognize Four Influential Factors affecting our perception of our real world.
2. Identify 21 Cultural Tendencies, which create different thinking processes, and their academic benefits for students and teachers.
3. Discover the complete concept of Worldview while comparing it to Philosophy.
4. Offer an opportunity to replace a debate regarding science and religion with a discussion.
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Introduction: According to Stephen Jay Gould Theory, Habit, Prejudice, and Culture influence how we think and perceive the world. This study will define and apply these Four Factors to various areas, such as in science. But first, an introduction, the backstory of how this study came to be, and the purpose of why it was written.
Of the Four Factors, we begin with Culture because living and teaching cross-culturally has provided us personally with a number of Cultural insights.
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Comparing and contrasting Cultural Tendencies: their descriptions and examples of interactions between us as teachers and students.
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History of Two Cultures: Western versus Non-Western
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Worldview and Philosophy: How are each defined? Do they relate to each other? Do they compete or cooperate? This section researches and explains the answers to these questions as the remaining Factors, Theory, Habit, and Prejudice are brought into the context.
Cultural Tendencies lay the groundwork for building a mental framework, while Theory, Habit, and Prejudice fill in the specifics, producing a particular Model of Science.
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In this series, we will construct a Model of Science based on Western Cultural Tendencies.
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This section will construct a Model of Science based on Non-Western Cultural Tendencies.
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Here, we introduce the attempts to make a Synthesis of Western and Non-Western Sciences
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VI. Basic Biblical Belief House
This chapter establishes the Basic Beliefs that comprise the Biblical Story as told from Genesis to Revelation and as
understood by the Non-Western Hebrew Culture.
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VII. My Personal Worldview/Philosophy
This chapter demonstrates how I developed my own personal standpoint, therefore giving me the tools to discern
other standpoints and to help me remain coherent in the standpoint I choose to live by.
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