ERIC Number: EJ537923
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Publication Date: 1997
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Certainty, Determinism, and Predictability in Theories of Instructional Design: Lessons from Science.
Jonassen, David H.; And Others
Educational Technology, v37 n1 p27-34 Jan-Feb 1997
The strongly positivist beliefs on which traditional conceptions of instructional design (ID) are based derive from Aristotelian logic and oversimplify the world, reducing human learning and performance to a repertoire of manipulable behaviors. Reviews the cases against deterministic predictability and discusses hermeneutic, fuzzy logic, and chaos theory perspectives and their implications for ID. (PEN)
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Educational Theories, Hermeneutics, Instructional Design, Learning, Logic, Models, Performance
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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