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Luppicini, Rocci – Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2003
This theoretical paper uses cybernetic-based approaches and communications theory to advance knowledge of constructivist learning. Explores a cyber-constructivist perspective (CCP) as a tool for increasing awareness of factors that may contribute to effective constructivist educational design within learning communities, and discusses advantages…
Descriptors: Communications, Constructivism (Learning), Cybernetics, Instructional Design
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Bopry, Jeanette – Educational Technology Research and Development, 1999
Discusses educational technology as a form of technical rationality and considers the conflict between practitioners' epistemological position as constructivists and technical rationality. Topics include cybernetics; autonomous systems theory; enactive constructivism; representation versus effective action; mind and memory; enaction in artificial…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Constructivism (Learning), Cybernetics, Educational Technology
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Kyler, David Clinton – Journal of Environmental Education, 1984
Discusses conceptual models of thought that have recently emerged to confront the conventional approaches to analysis and solution to complex environmental problems. In addition to a critical attack on the tradition of specialization and reductionism, several models are summarized that originated from ecology, cybernetics, and system theory. (BC)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Cybernetics, Decision Making, Ecology
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Friedlander, Myrna L.; Heatherington, Laurie – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1989
Introduces a modification of Ericson and Rogers' (1973) dyadic Relational Communication Control Coding System (RCCCS) for family contexts involving three or more persons. New coding rules were necessary because in families messages are not always reciprocal or direct. An illustrative excerpt shows the kinds of indexes provided by the system.(TE)
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Cybernetics, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Relationship