Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Date of this Version
1994
Citation
Essays on Teaching Excellence: Toward the Best in the Academy (1993-1994) 5(1)
A publication of the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education
Abstract
The Perry Model
The theme of Perry's work is that no matter how unclouded our message or lucid our meaning, students make their own meanings from their own cognitive structures. Our students come to us naive epistemologists, replete with mistaken views of the nature of knowledge and its acquisition. Perry charts their odyssey from naiveté to maturity through stages where these restrictive cognitive chrysalises are outgrown for increasingly more subtle structures. Briefly, the journey involves the following.
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Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
Copyright 1994, Duch and Norton. Used by permission