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ERIC Number: EJ720135
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005
Pages: 17
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ISSN: ISSN-0021-8510
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Holistic Integrated Design Education: Art Education in a Complex and Uncertain World
Nokes, Christopher
Journal of Aesthetic Education, v39 n1 p31-47 Spr 2005
Learning, which is understood as a change in behavior, is a process of becoming. This monograph introduces the neologism egosystem as an amalgam of the individual, the self and its attendant ego, and socio-environmental schemata swirling around the individual. In an uncertain and probabilistic universe, the role of chaos theory in recognizing fluctuations and perturbations within an egosystem, and in the fabric of everyday life, is evidentiary. Chaos theory has created a paradigm shift towards a more unified, real conception of the phenomenal world. Likewise, egosystem represents a comparative paradigm shift, and becomes subject to the same uncertainty and (in the language of chaos theorists) sensitivity to initial conditions. Faced with this new road map to the human psyche, the task before educators, especially in the field of visual arts, is twofold: first, to integrate the four major paradigms of psychology and learning behavior, namely, associationism, functionalism, cognitivism and neurophysiology (Hergenhahn and Olson, 1997), with the addition of a possible fifth, socio-culturalism; and secondly, to integrate Gardner's notion of multiple intelligences (1983), into a unified scheme defining a crucial paradigm shift in education and the behavioral sciences towards holistic integrative design education.
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Language: English
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