Eclecticism

Eclecticism or Principled Eclecticism

The introduction of a new mandatory policy for the teaching of English at the higher education level in China, College English Curriculum Requirements (CECR, published in 2004), had the intention of modernising and improving the quality of English teaching at the tertiary level in China. The policy had a focus on student centred approaches to learning and the use of technology to support this p...

Eclecticism Shrinks the World

Conclusion : Re - evaluating Eclecticism

When looking at the original data analysis, we see a variety of approaches used to examine the discourse data of focus. The analysis is rich and includes a wide array of features. Conversely, the three single perspective analyses conducted for this Forum each drew upon different linguistic details to support their conclusions with different insights. It is important to consider how different ap...

Eclecticism in a passionate profession.

ONE OF THE CHALLENGES of planning scientific programs and editing journals is to remain eclectic. Eclecticism is defined as the process of choosing what appears to be the best from diverse sources. In attempting to do this, abstract graders, meeting planners and editors often offend certain persons who believe that their work is more important than that of others and deserves prominent display....

Eclecticism in Psychotherapy: Is Integration Possible?

Despite efforts toward integrating differing approaches, little progress has been made in developing a single, comprehensive system of psychotherapy. A major problem to such integration arises with the existence of two basically incompatible or irreconcilable views of human nature and of related philosophies, theories, and practices of psychotherapy. The currently popular paradigm is questioned...