Practical Methodological Reform Needs Good Theory

Toward A Practical General Systems Methodological Theory

Our main purpose in this paper is to describe the way in which we have been relating General System Theory (GST) to practice and to the design of a General Systems Methodology (GSM). Our first step was to apply GST to design a methodology for software development. Then, in a second step, by means of the experience/knowledge learned from applying the methodology to developing specific informatio...

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Public reporting needs reform!

L ike many of my colleagues, I support President Obama's call to demonstrate value as part of health care reform. One way to do that is through public reporting. The rationale is that public scrutiny of outcomes will motivate the health care " industry " to improve the " product " (outcomes), rather than accelerating value-less economic activity (process) that often benefi ts providers more tha...

Nothing is as practical as a good theory

This is the third issue of Perspectives on Medical Education. PME aims to share with you, our reader, the growing body of knowledge and understanding in the broad domain of health professions education. We aim to inspire you to conduct (more) research yourself and to contribute to the building of a coherent body of evidence. Additionally we hope to increase a further understanding of learning i...

Schwab's Practical Theory: Integrate of Theory and Practice

The emergence of re-conceptualism in the field of curriculum studies caused a large rotation of identity in this field. The book titled "understanding of curriculum" by William Pinar may be considered the most outstanding work in the field. In this book, movement which affected pre re-conceptualist, are introduced as the traditional type and it is believed the new curriculum discourses should b...