Human – learning – machines: introduction to a special section on how cybernetics and constructivism inspired new forms of learning

Hof, Barbara; Müggenburg, Jan

doi:10.1080/0046760x.2020.1803422

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“…Wiener’s approach to studying mental models agreed with Skinner’s radical behaviorism, which suggests the environment guides behavior (Hof & Müggenburg, 2021). However, he attempted to transcend behaviorism, which suggests the mind is unknowable, claiming mental models are initially closed black boxes, understood by observing input–output relationships in a larger environment (Petrick, 2020).…”

Section: First-order Cybernetics and Psychologymentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Neuropsychologists believed the mind, or black box, was transparent and its nature discernible (Petrick, 2020), believing electroencephalographies (EEG) surpassed reinforcement. Radical behaviorists considered the mind an opaque, unknowable black box (Hof & Müggenburg, 2021). They appreciated first-order cybernetics’ focus on cause–effect processes to understand mental activity, but believed the environment predicted conscious action.…”

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Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

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This article outlines links between cybernetics and psychology through the black box metaphor using a tripartite narrative. The first part explores first-order cybernetic approaches to opening the black box. These developments run parallel to the decline of radical behaviorism and advancements in information processing theory and neuropsychology. We then describe how cybernetics migrates towards a second-order approach (expanding and questioning features of first-order inquiry), understanding applications of rule-based tools to sociocultural phenomena and dynamic mental models, inspiring radical constructivism, and also accepting social constructivism. Psychology, however, enters the cognitive revolution, adhering to the computer metaphor of first-order cyberneticians to streamline human consciousness. The article concludes by outlining how second-order cybernetic approaches emerging in the 1990s may provide cues to psychologists to adopt mixed methods, and bioecological models in the information age, uniting understandings of observable human activity, inner perceptions, and physiological processes across contexts to understand consciousness.

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Section: First-order Cybernetics and Psychologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

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Kuznetcova

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The OECD as an arena for debate on the future uses of computers in schools

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Bürgi

2021

Globalisation, Societies and Education

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Computer education was an integral part of curriculum development and a priority of the OECD's policy agenda at the turn of the 1970s. Based on an analysis of archival documents, programme overviews and publications, this article describes how the introduction of computers in the classroom was advocated by the OECD and, more specifically, how this fostered the creation of an arena for the production of knowledge. The article sheds light on the OECD as an arena for the pooling and channelling of ideas relating to the uses of school computers. It, therefore, not only fills a gap in the history of educational technology, but also demonstrates how knowledge was catalysed and disseminated by this international governmental organisation. Furthermore, the study analyses an attempt to intervene in national policy-making that was withdrawn before it was implemented.

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Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies

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2023

European Educational Research Journal

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This paper explores transnational circulation during the early 1970s of lifelong education and recurrent education as ‘policy repertoires’ addressing redistribution of participation in organised (adult) learning throughout life. Focused on a re-reading of UNESCO’s 1972 report on lifelong education, the paper offers a critical analysis of the Faure Commission’s ‘position-taking’ with regard to its understanding of recurrent education as a policy repertoire. Frequently cited differences between the Commission’s policy recommendations for lifelong education and its position-taking regarding recurrent education are shown to have fragile empirical foundations. This paper argues that Faure’s report explicitly appropriated and openly incorporated arguments favouring recurrent education in its own policy recommendations for lifelong education. Mainstream interpretations of the Faure report are subsequently subjected to a critical analysis of putative neoliberal tendencies articulated by the Faure Commission’s own report. Key areas for further social-historical research regarding policy repertoires in the 1970s are identified.

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Human – learning – machines: introduction to a special section on how cybernetics and constructivism inspired new forms of learning

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Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations

The OECD as an arena for debate on the future uses of computers in schools

Re-reading the 1972 Faure report as a policy repertoire: Advocacy of lifelong education as recurrent education with neoliberal tendencies

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