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How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : |
At least 50 volunteers were working in this congress. Also more than 600 people participated in this congress |
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Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : |
Many countries (at least 100) such as Mexico, USA, Canada, Iran, India, Italy, Nigeria, etc |
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Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : |
No |
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If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : |
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : |
They were very interested to know about the nature of our disciplinary practice, and the interdisciplinary practice as well as our our communications skills. |
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If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : |
Dr Rick Chew, Professor, University of Oklahoma, Edmond USA
Dr Rick Szostak, Associate professor, University of Alberta, Canada |
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Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : |
No, I am following the process. The focus of the congress was about interdisciplinary social sciences, therefore different participants from different countries were participated in this event. So, I tried to capture some ideas from different discipline.Again, Throughout the history of philosophy, imagination has been understood primarily as the capacity to picture which is unreal or absent, as a power of ingenuity, and often in combination as a fictive capacity. Imagination can be seen as a kind of epistemic virtue. The ancient dichotomy between what we know and what we dream, perceive or sense by instinct is found, in some form, in every field of human intellectual endeavour. Knowledge concerns itself with what is present to the senses, but is also a stored and shared repository of publicly acceptable thoughts, many frozen into physical symbols (written or spoken), transmitted through time and space. Knowledge coded, stored and expressed using symbols can, because of the entrancing flexibility of symbol systems, be broken up and reassembled in a multitude of novel combinations. It is this act of recombination which underlies the power to imagine. Our imagination is and must be grounded in our knowledge. The more memories we accumulate, the more material we have to work with, the richer and stranger are the fruits of our imagination.
Imagination, however, is not just the recombination of stored experiences. Such recombination happens every night even in organisms blessed with much less cortex than human beings. What distinguishes us is our capacity for controlled and wakeful dreaming. This is a useful survival aid, helping us to solve problems, anticipate challenges and conceive alternatives. But we have turned imagination into much more – a good in itself. Like money, sex or drugs, we use it to satisfy our needs, flaunt our wealth and status, tighten our social bonds, or distract us from realities we would rather avoid.
we see the complementarity of imagination and knowledge. At both group and individual levels, knowledge facilitates community and continuity, while imagination facilitates change. Knowledge binds us to a sometimes-oppressive existence; imagination helps us escape it. However, imagination evolved as a tool for facilitating survival. Imagining, we take a step beyond what we know into the future or into another world. We see alternatives and possibilities; we work out what we need to reach our goals. Unhooked from reality, imagination no longer serves these life-enhancing purposes. Without new knowledge to feed it and keep it in check, it can become sterile and even dangerous. So is imagination more important than knowledge in education? It depends on whom you ask, what you ask about, and when.
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Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : |
Everything was very good since I am traveling all the time |
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Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : |
It was very organized, very nice communication with people, good discussion. ] I introduced all of my abstract for getting their information "Nurses are informed from patients needs by effective communication and response to them. According to importance of nurse-patient communication process, it is necessary to recognize the communicative skills of nurses. So this study performed to explore the nurses’ communication skills in relationship with patients. Study performed by qualitative approach and content analysis method. Participants were 23 nurses, patients and their families in medical and surgical wards of Imam Khomeini Hospital of Tehran University of medical sciences. Data collection methods were including interview and observation. Interviews performed unstructured initially that after the first and second interviews according to derived concepts from data analysis continued as semi-structured. In order to gain a deeper understanding and verifying data from interviews, observations were used. Observations focused on the interactions between nurses and patients during communication together. Data analysis led to emerging of main category: the caring according to patient’s need. This category derived from two subcategories, (1) how to identify the patient’s need and (2) communicative behavior in the face of patient’s need. How to identify the patient’s need subcategory was composed of two concepts: type of patient problem and monitoring the health status of patient. Communicative behavior in the face of patient’s need was composed of four concepts: providing care considerations, informal education for patient, induction of quietness to patient and getting the trust of patient. |