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A Systems Approach Knowledge Base for Education

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Comprehensive Systems Design: A New Educational Technology

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((NATO ASI F,volume 95))

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The paper argues that the real failure of our school systems is their failure to educate us for citizenship in a complex and interrelated world where institutions and technology increasingly permeate modern life. After arguing that the reaching of limits in resources use will make public education on the technological-institutional systems that support modern life necessary, the author identifies a number of features of a systems approach knowledge base to meet this challenge. Two illustrations of how a curriculum based on these features could be developed are provided.

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  1. Department of Urban Affairs and Planning, Hunter College, 695 Park Avenue, W 1611, NY, NY 10021, USA

    Hilda J. Blanco

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  1. Hilda J. Blanco
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  1. Instructional Systems Technology Department, Indiana University, School of Education, W. W. Wright Education Building, 3rd and Jordan, Bloomington, Indiana, 47405, USA

    Charles M. Reigeluth  & Jeannette R. Olson  & 

  2. International Systems Institute and Saybrook Graduate School, 25781 Morse Drive, Carmel, California, 93923, USA

    Bela H. Banathy

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Blanco, H.J. (1993). A Systems Approach Knowledge Base for Education. In: Reigeluth, C.M., Banathy, B.H., Olson, J.R. (eds) Comprehensive Systems Design: A New Educational Technology. NATO ASI Series, vol 95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58035-2_18

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-58035-2_18

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