Paradigm Shift in Educational and Performance Technology II

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Paradigm Shift in Educational and Performance
Technology II

• Farhad Saba, Ph. D.

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Promise of Modernism
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Dichotomies
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Emergence of the Postmodern
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Postmodern Science

• undecidables,
• limits of precise control,
• conflicts characterized by incomplete
  information, fracta
• catastrophes,

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Postmodern Science

• Pragmatic paradoxes.
• It is changing the meaning of the word knowledge
• It is producing not the known, but the unknown.
• It suggests a model of legitimation that has
  nothing to do with maximized performance, but has
  as its basic difference understood as paralogy

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Pragmatism

• For the pragmatist, theories are only as useful
  as their instrumentality.
• James asserted Theories thus become
  instruments, not answers to enigmas, in which we
  can rest.

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Pragmatism

• Pragmatism unstiffens all our theories, limbers
  them up and sets each one at work (William
  James)
• Pragmatism is that of a happy harmonizer
  (Cornell West)

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General Dichotomies
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Dichotomies in Education
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Dynamic Systems
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Positive Feedback
Knowledge
Learning
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Negative Feedback
Heater
Room Temperature
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Dynamic Systems
Teacher Centered
Learner Centered
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Dynamic Systems
Synchronous
Asynchronous
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Dynamic Systems
Objectivist
Constructivist
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Dynamic Systems
Objectivist
Constructivist
Conative
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Transactional Distance
Structure
Autonomy
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Paradigm Shift in Educational and Performance
Technology II

• Farhad Saba, Ph. D.