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

Comments

Copyright 1994, Duch and Norton. Used by permission

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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