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Contrasts

Unpublished manuscript. See also, “Contrasts: A Short course.”

Reports possible methods for integrating environmental education into existing public school curricula. Proposes a technique called "piggy-backing" by which environmental education may be integrated into existing curricula with none or very little increase in teacher workloads and per pupil cost. Examples of integration include discussion for eighth-grade mathematics. Specific mathematics problem sets are described which deal with energy and environmental issues. Full title: Content-Oriented Resources. Volume VI of A Sourcebook for the Design of a Regional Environmental Learning System. [Project title: Development of an Interpretive Structural Model and Strategies for Implementation Based on a Descriptive and Prescriptive Analysis of Resources for Environmental Education/Studies. Contract #300-700-4028].

Part of the math needed for writing the software, this paper was written in the early seventies at the beginning of Warfield's exploration of the potency of Interpretive Structural Modeling. To view the full copyrighted abstract written in Warfield's own words please use http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4045074/#document-tabs. Presented at IEEE Conference on Decision & Control, 5-7 December 1973, San Diego, CA.

Discussion of seven methodologies used for group design. They are: Brainwriting (Ideawriting), Nominal Group Technique (NGT), Delphi, Interpretive Structural Modeling (ISM), Options Field Method, Options Profile Method, and Trade-off Analysis Method (TAM). Includes description, a DELTA chart, and a graphic. See “Consensus Methodologies.”

 

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Consensus Methodology Parameters

A collection of 14 or 15 typed and handwritten notes divided into two or three groups.

A collection of handwritten notes on 5 sheets of ruled tablet paper, plus 20 typed pages plus 2 photocopied pages showing "Table 3" and "Table 4" from a previously published article.

Sunday, 14 June 2015 16:09

Consensus Methodologies: A Workshop

Contains correspondence, syllabi, notes and other material related three-day worship on ISM and other Consensus Methodologies. Presented for Carl-Cranz-Gesellschaft of Heidelberg and Gesellschaft fur Mathematik und Datenverbeitung of Bonn, 26-28 April 1982, Bonn, West Germany. The full title is: "Softwareunterstutazung Fur Komplexe Planungs - Und Entscheidungsprozesse, Interpretive Structural Modeling."



A one-week course developed for Larry Edwards.



Discusses the steps, approaches, and tools of the collective inquiry process posited by a Regional Environmental Learning System (RELS). Includes discussion of the charrette approach, AT&T/Battelle approach, and the Washington State approach. Tools for collective inquiry are described and field tests are discussed. References and four topical bibliographies are provided. An appendix presents a computer program for modeling technique proposed for use in collective inquiry. See also, “A Conceptual Basis For The Design Of A Regional Environmental Learning System: Fifth Quarterly Report January 1979 [Project title: Development of an Interpretive Structural Model and Strategies for Implementation Based on a Descrip...].”

 

Five tables Warfield developed to provide a complete overview of all of his work. The tables are: Pattern 1: Chronology: Seven Milestones in the History of Thought; Pattern 2: Milestones in the Study of Human Behavior; Pattern 3: Chronology: The Work Program of Complexity; Pattern 4: Five Indexes of Complexity; Pattern 5: The Curriculum of Complexity. A sixth pattern, Colleagues of Inheritance, is not included. See also, “Condensed Patterns Relevant to the Science of Complexity (Structure-Based School), Generic Design Science, and Interactive Management, 1997.”