CAF
CAF
AF: Consider All Factors involved.
CAF is a crystallisation of the process of trying to consider all the factors in a situation. This thinking operation is essentially related to action, decision, planning, judgement, and coming to a conclusion.
People naturally assume that they have considered all the factors, but usually their consideration is limited to the obvious ones. Turning CAF into a deliberate operation switches attention from the importance of the factors to looking around for all the factors. Clearly it is difficult to consider all the factors, so in the teaching situation consideration can be limited to the ten most important factors (or any other number), or the lesson can be taught in terms of:
(*CAF = Consider All Factors: When you have to choose or make a decision or just think about something, there are always many factors that you have to consider. If you leave out some of these factors, your choice may seem right at the time but will later turn out to be wrong. When you are looking at other people's thinking, you can try and see what factors they have left out. EXAMPLE
Some years ago in a big city there was a law that all new buildings had to have large parking lots in the basement so that people working in the building would have somewhere to park. After a while this law was changed because it was found to be a mistake. Why?
They had forgotten to consider the factor that providing parking lots would encourage everyone to drive in to work in their cars and so the traffic congestion on the road was worse than ever.)
(NOTE: Logically it could be argued that CAF should come before PMI, since CAF includes PMI as it includes C&S, OPV, etc. But the PMI is the easier lesson to teach, so it comes first.) The CAF lesson is a difficult one to teach because it is difficult to try and consider all factors. The emphasis must therefore be on what has been left out. For instance, each group tries to find factors that have not been put forward by the "designated group."
CAF is a crystallisation of the process of trying to consider all the factors in a situation. This thinking operation is essentially related to action, decision, planning, judgement, and coming to a conclusion.
People naturally assume that they have considered all the factors, but usually their consideration is limited to the obvious ones. Turning CAF into a deliberate operation switches attention from the importance of the factors to looking around for all the factors. Clearly it is difficult to consider all the factors, so in the teaching situation consideration can be limited to the ten most important factors (or any other number), or the lesson can be taught in terms of:
- the factors affecting oneself
- the factors affecting other people
- the factors affecting society in general.
(*CAF = Consider All Factors: When you have to choose or make a decision or just think about something, there are always many factors that you have to consider. If you leave out some of these factors, your choice may seem right at the time but will later turn out to be wrong. When you are looking at other people's thinking, you can try and see what factors they have left out. EXAMPLE
Some years ago in a big city there was a law that all new buildings had to have large parking lots in the basement so that people working in the building would have somewhere to park. After a while this law was changed because it was found to be a mistake. Why?
They had forgotten to consider the factor that providing parking lots would encourage everyone to drive in to work in their cars and so the traffic congestion on the road was worse than ever.)
(NOTE: Logically it could be argued that CAF should come before PMI, since CAF includes PMI as it includes C&S, OPV, etc. But the PMI is the easier lesson to teach, so it comes first.) The CAF lesson is a difficult one to teach because it is difficult to try and consider all factors. The emphasis must therefore be on what has been left out. For instance, each group tries to find factors that have not been put forward by the "designated group."