About Genesis

By Hans Konstapel February 17th, 2008, under Biology, Completed, Cycles

A very interesting principle that helps to shape education is the principle of Genesis. The principle of Genesis can be seen in the development of the human fetus. It follows all the stages of human evolution but the process takes nine months instead of millions of years. The most interesting scientists that researched genesis can [...]

About Learning Styles or Why Inventors are Always Bothering an Organization

By Hans Konstapel February 16th, 2008, under Completed, Learning

At ABN AMRO I was responsible for one of the biggest training projects ever started. The complete IT-Staff and their customers had to be trained in “the ABN AMRO-way-of-working” after the merger took place.   We were able to use the most advanced people and tools to accomplish this aim. It made it possible to [...]

About Learning Styles

By Hans Konstapel February 15th, 2008, under Completed, Learning

E-Learning is one of the results of the E-Commerce Bubble. During the E-Commerce Bubble everything you can imagine would be changed into a booming business if it was combined with The Internet (a Website). When you would use the Internet you could learn Everywhere at Every place at Any time. Every “old-fashioned” system that was [...]

About “Just-in-Time”-Learning or Why we are still Waiting for Educational Simulators

By Hans Konstapel February 14th, 2008, under Completed, Learning

Learning is an autonomous process. Human beings (and other organisms) respond to a change in their internal or external environment. We are not able to adapt to every change but small and gradual changes are implemented without noticing. When you play the piano and pay attention to the notes your fingers are playing, your fingers [...]

Why the Education Factory is Producing Products Nobody Wants to Buy Anymore

By Hans Konstapel February 13th, 2008, under Completed, Learning

I have been involved with the Education System in many roles. I have been responsible for the education of children and adults and I have advised many companies and institutions (including the Dutch Ministry of Education) about education.I want to write a few blogs about this issue. This is the first one. The first issue [...]

What would You do when You were able to Create your own Reality?

By Hans Konstapel February 11th, 2008, under Completed, Philosophy, Psychology

If you believe that you are creating your own reality you are responsible for your own diseases. This sounds like a logical conclusion but is this really the case?  The first thing you have to question is if you would create a disease if you could create everything you wanted. The answer is no.  When [...]

About the Hormone of Love

By Hans Konstapel February 10th, 2008, under Biology, Completed

In the near future we will have many technologies that will allow us to modify and assist our emotions and reasoning. In this blog I want to tell you what is happening in the area of the chemical engineering of the human body. Science is digging deeper and deeper into the structures that matter most [...]

Why Politicians are Afraid to Play the Game of Politics

By Hans Konstapel February 10th, 2008, under Completed, Politics

Will McWhinney defined six games. In the previous blogs I told you about the Game of Life and the Analytical Game. In this blog I want to tell you about a very special game called the Game of Politics. The game of Politics is a conflict between the worldviews Unity and Social. Unity is the [...]