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Doll, William E., Jr. – 1987
This paper suggests that present-day curriculum, based on Newtonian thought, has been rendered obsolete by the holistic and interactive "post-modern" world view based on quantum physics, nonlinear mathematics, general systems theory, and Ilya Prigogine's nonequilibrium thermodynamics. The Newtonian world view, which is linear and…
Descriptors: Curriculum, Cybernetics, Educational Philosophy, Elementary Secondary Education
