Determinants of the Cognitive Structure, its Relation to the Cognitive Capital and Digital Applications from the New Developmental Approach perspective The Productive Scientific Group: A Model Abstract

The new developmental approach, with its various dimensions, is built on the cognitive structure that can be achieved and formed. The formation of this cognitive structure depends on the basic cognitive capital balance. The formation of individuals’ cognitive structure is directly proportional to the volume and strength of the basic cognitive capital balance, and it the strength of cognitive stricture formation of the productive group members, who are responsible for fulfilling the ambitions raised by the developmental approach. This approach can fulfill its ambitions and prove its feasibility through analyzing this directly proportional relationship and transforming it in form of electronic digital applications. Henceforth, the problem of the current research is confined to analyzing these relationships and proving their sequence and succession. The new developmental approach no longer aims at convincing people that their society development and growth depend on material capital and material structural assets as basic elements, as was believed, but the society growth rather depends on the potential cognitive capital balance and what can be captured of that balance by the individuals who are responsible for fulfilling the developmental requirements, as a productive model group who acquires a cognitive structure characterized by novelty and electronic digital nature through which the group can fulfill the development ambitions in its various fields. The research also focused in the inevitability of this model group as a group of specialists in particular scientific / academic institutions required for fulfilling these ambitions; and therefore, this group represents a guiding model of the new developmental approach based on the relationships highlighted in the research. Perhaps the most important criteria of these specialties are diversity and depth, which allow for constructing a good cognitive structure which is able to fulfill the ambitions of the new developmental approach. Since the Faculty of Education at Al Azhar University is an academic and scientific institution that includes diverse scientific specializations and disciplines, this allows it to construct such as a model group. This faculty is distinguished by the diversity of scientific specializations which are not available at other academic institutions, as this faculty includes departments of education and information technology, social work and society development, curriculum, methods and techniques of teaching, foundations and philosophy of education, educational planning and administration, comparative studies, educational psychology, metal health and Islamic education. Therefore, the current research argues for the necessity of constructing a productive model scientific group based on the previously mentioned disciplines as a guiding model for fulfilling the ambitions of the new developmental approach to achieve the requirements of development. This can also present a guiding model for the other scientific and academic institutions.