Marion Brady writes....
> My approach to the description and analysis of systems and/or
>subsystems-- large or small, simple or complex, extended in time or
>momentary, etc. is always the same whether I'm studying an entire culture, a
>neighborhood, a corporation, a segment of an assembly line, a mechanical
>process, an athletic team, people in a stuck elevator--whatever. I use the
>5-element approach implicit in our language and thought. All comprehensive
>descriptions and analyses of aspects of reality merely elaborate, in varying
>degrees and with varying precision, who/what/when/where/why.
>
> If your kids' education isn't helping them make explicit the
>culturally structured, implicit model of reality that underlies their every
>thought and action (and it almost certainly isn't) they're being tragically
>short-changed.
I certainly agree with Marion's argument, and I believe that his framework
for organizaing the curriculum in schools is an appropriate and sound one.
If it had no other strength--which it does--it will help kids think
systemically and begin to view things as wholes and events as
interconnected, and not the fragments that they are seem to be in the way
they are presented in most schools.
Chip Brown
brownc@sccoast.net
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