Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-10-04

  • Heard Joe Biden will be in the neighborhood Saturday night. #
  • Spectacular folliage colors in the higher elevations of the Catskills. Surprised by how early it is happening this year. #
  • Getting cold outside. Will need to light the wood stove. #
  • Spent the afternoon pruning bushes, weeding, and putting down mulch. Will need to wrap some bushed with burlap soon. #

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Learning Paradigms as Philosophies of Practice

In the online class I am teaching, Principles and Practices of Online Course Creation and Instructional Design, I introduced the class to various learning paradigms, which we (and our text) referred to as Philosophies of Practice. These include progressive, behaviorist, radical (critical theorist), constructivist, connectivist, and such. While Creswell speaks about four different “worldviews”–postpositivism, constructivism, advocacy / participatory, and pragmatism–and Guba speaks about–positivism, postpositisism, critical theory, and constructivism–I thought it would be helpful for my students, all of whom are involved in adult learning, to be introduced to this concept and then to wrestle with it.

I asked my students, within our course system, to comment on which one they embrace. I thought it may be too personal to do out here on the public Web, and am acutely concerned with privacy and the safety of a learning environment.

I wonder if they can determine my own preferred paradigm?