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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:38:03 EST
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- From: "Brian A. Levine" <balg0514@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Social Constructions
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- McCollum <MCCOLLUM@WSUVM1.BITNET> writes:
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- >I have been asked to clarify my thoughts on social constructions.
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- >One way to interpret reality is through the lenses of root metaphors.
- >Stephen Pepper stated that 4 root metaphors are adequate to construct
- >and explain all that we experience: Mechanism (the world is a machine),
- >Organicism (the world is an organism), Formism (the world consists of
- >similarities) and Contextualism (the world consists of interactions).
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- [text deleted]
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- >Incidentally, I believe root metaphors have great significance in
- >instructional design.
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- >Jerry McCollum, Dir. Biomedical Communicatons
- >Washington State University, Pullman WA 99164
- >mccollum@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu 509-335-2624
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- Please don't stop here! Can you elaborate on the significance of
- root metaphors in instructional design?
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- --Brian
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- Brian A. Levine
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Internet: brianlev@uiuc.edu
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