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CYCLIC IRRELEVANCY: A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN FEEDBACK MALFUNCTIONS IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

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Date Issued:
1976
Summary:
As systems, schools receive inputs from their suprasystems and produce output which is returned to the suprasystems. Criteria for evaluating quality of output are best defined by the suprasystems which receive the output. When school systems produce output which meets suprasystem criteria, a state of concordance between the educational subsystem and its suprasystems is achieved. However, the out-put of an educational system may not meet the expectations of its suprasystems. Deductive analysis is the method used in this dissertation for establishing proof of cyclic irrelevancy from the assumptions, definitions and postulates widely accepted by scholars in the field of systems theory. Corollaries which logically follow are also formulated. Based upon the identification and description of cyclic irrelevancy and its corollaries, a theoretical prescriptive model for interruption of cyclic irrelevancy is described.
Title: CYCLIC IRRELEVANCY: A THEORETICAL CONSTRUCT FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CERTAIN FEEDBACK MALFUNCTIONS IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS.
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Name(s): HANSEN, HAROLD CHARLES JULIUS.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Harmes, Harold M., Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1976
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 86 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: As systems, schools receive inputs from their suprasystems and produce output which is returned to the suprasystems. Criteria for evaluating quality of output are best defined by the suprasystems which receive the output. When school systems produce output which meets suprasystem criteria, a state of concordance between the educational subsystem and its suprasystems is achieved. However, the out-put of an educational system may not meet the expectations of its suprasystems. Deductive analysis is the method used in this dissertation for establishing proof of cyclic irrelevancy from the assumptions, definitions and postulates widely accepted by scholars in the field of systems theory. Corollaries which logically follow are also formulated. Based upon the identification and description of cyclic irrelevancy and its corollaries, a theoretical prescriptive model for interruption of cyclic irrelevancy is described.
Identifier: 11672 (digitool), FADT11672 (IID), fau:8607 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.
College of Education
Subject(s): System theory
School management and organization
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