Dr. Marta Szabo White is the Program Director for both the Study Abroad in Transition Economies [China/Russia/South Africa] and for the Business Mediterranean Style: Study Abroad in Greece & Turkey Program. She is also the Director of the Robinson Honors Program and the Director of Robinson Business Learning Community.
Internationally, Dr. Marta Szabo White has lectured at The RONALD H. BROWN INSTITUTE for SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA and the UNIVERSITIÉ PANTHÉON-SORBONNE. She is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the 2004 Outstanding Teacher at Georgia State University, the 1999, 2003 and 2009 J. Mack Robinson College of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Teaching, the 2002 Board of Advisors Teaching Excellence Award, the 2002 International Education Excellence Award, the 2005 Master Teacher Certificate Award and the nomination for the 2008 J. Mack Robinson College of Business Faculty Recognition Award for Outstanding Teaching.
In addition to striving for excellence and innovation in the practice of teaching, many of her contributions to the scholarship of teaching stem from her collaborations with the Duke CIBER, which have resulted in the publication of several Cross-Cultural Negotiation Simulations; the implementation of the ALBION in China simulation in Singapore, detailed in a 2004 Special Issue of Global Business Languages; and more recently, her role as ICE Teaching Consortium Advisor, the dissemination of CultureActive [pioneered by Richard Lewis] and ICE [initiated by Duke], both cross-cultural assessment tools grounded in the LMR [Linear-active, Multi-active, and Reactive] framework. Other research interests include strategy/structure/performance linkages.
The model from the conference website [1], coupled with Kuhn’s [2] work on paradigms and Isaac’s [3] interpretation of Kuhn’s work, serve as the inspiration for this plenary address.
In the first model, cybernetic loops are modified through feedback loops, linking with “Academic Globalization” and “Inter-Cultural Communication”, which are supported by Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics [1]. Celebrating these cornerstones, and their support of pivotal relationships, this paper draws upon Kuhn’s structure of paradigms in Aristotle’s terms of ethos, pathos and logos [4], [5], & [6], and Isaac’s analysis [3] to propose a Creative Destructive [7] process, enriching education through paradigms.
References
[1] Symposium on Academic Globalization and Inter-Cultural Communication: AGIC 2016, http://www.iiis2016.org/wmsci/website/about.asp?vc=22
[2] Kuhn, T.S. [1996]. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. [3rd Ed.] Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
[3] Isaac, J. [2012].Kuhn’s Education: Wittgenstein, Pedagogy, and the Road to Structure. Modern Intellectual History, 9, 1, pp. 89–107 © Cambridge University Press 2012 doi: 10.1017/S1479244311000497
https://www.academia.edu/8285253/Kuhns_Education_Wittgenstein_Pedagogy_and_the_Road_to_Structure_
[4] Ramage, J.D. & Bean, J.C. [1998]. Writing Arguments. [4th Ed.]. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon. pp 81-82.
[5] Sproat, E., Driscoll, D.L. & Brizee, A. [2012]. Aristotle's Rhetorical Situation. Copyright ©1995-2014 by The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University.
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/625/03/
Accessed February 15, 2014.
[6] White, M.S., [2015] “Academic Ethos, Pathos, and Logos Intersect with Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” Plenary Keynote Session Academic Globalization: Proceedings of the 19th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
