Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ579874
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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Outcomes-Based Education: Some Insights from Complexity Theory.
Claassen, C.
South African Journal of Higher Education, v12 n2 p34-40 1998
Describes a new outcomes-based teacher-education curriculum being introduced in South Africa, noting its compatibility with complexity theory, which advocates self-organization, unpredictability, and randomness. While outcomes-based education is criticized for being behavioristic, for its prescriptiveness, for its rejection of modernism's formulas, and for being a technistic response to marketplace demands, complexity theory provides a monitoring framework for it. (Author/MSE)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Complexity Theory; South Africa


