Geir Sigurđsson: Confucian Propriety and Ritual Learning

Confucian and Western Teaching and Learning

The authors of this article consider Western teaching and learning alongside Confucian teaching and learning through reviewing the literature. The paper emphasizes that we must teach lower order thinking skills first before we teach higher order thinking skills, and confirms that rote learning and memorization precede critical thinking and creativity. It further confirms Brookfield’s theory tha...

Geir Kåre Resaland

Justifying Sustainability by Geir B

In the framework of ethical social choice theory, sustainability is justified by Efficiency and Equity as ethical axioms. These axioms correspond to the Suppes-Sen Grading principle. In technologies that are productive in a certain sense, the set of Suppes-Sen maximal utility paths is shown to equal the set of non-decreasing and efficient paths. Since any such path is sustainable, Efficiency an...

Matrix majorization Geir Dahl

We study the conceptmatrix majorization: for two real matrices A and B having m rows we say that A majorizes B if there is a row-stochastic matrix X with AX = B. A special case is classical notion of vector majorization. Several properties and characterizations of matrix majorization are given. Moreover, interpretations of the concept in mathematical statistics are discussed and some combinator...

Confucian Revival and School Culture