Holist vs Null - What's the difference?
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(education, of a learning strategy) That concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.
* 2000 , Francis M. Quinn, The Principles and Practice of Nurse Education ,
* 2001 , Howard Hills, Team-based Learning ,
* 2012 , David H. Jonassen, Barbara L. Grabowski, Handbook of Individual Differences Learning and Instruction ,
A believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole.
* 2003 , Anna Basso, Aphasia and Its Therapy ,
(sociology) One who advocates studying society as a whole, and who consistently interprets the actions of individuals in that context.
* 1991 , Jack Snyder, 5: Science and Sovietology: Bridging the Methods Gap in Soviet Foreign Policy Studies'', Erik P. Hoffmann, Robbin Frederick Laird, Frederic J. Fleron (editors), ''Soviet Foreign Policy , 2009,
* 2006 , Mario Bunge, 1: A systemic perspective on crime'', Per-Olof H. Wikström, Robert J. Sampson (editors), ''The Explanation of Crime: Context, Mechanisms and Development ,
(education) One who prefers to learn by forming an overview of the topic.
* 2000 , Francis M. Quinn, The Principles and Practice of Nurse Education ,
* 2001 , Howard Hills, Team-based Learning ,
* 2012 , David H. Jonassen, Barbara L. Grabowski, Handbook of Individual Differences Learning and Instruction ,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between holist and null
is that holist is a believer in, or practitioner of, holism; one who believes that a topic of study cannot be fully understood by studying the parts, or who studies by considering the whole while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.As an adjective holist
is (education|of a learning strategy) that concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.holist
English
Adjective
(-)page 34,
- suggests that these strategies reflect basic learning styles; holist strategies reflect a comprehension learning style and serialist strategies an operation learning style.
page 87,
- Pask described the two strategies as 'holist' and 'serialist'.Learners who adopt a holist strategy (described as comprehension learners) like to get an overview of a topic.
page 209,
- The serialist/holist cognitive style is a measure of a bipolar information-processing strategy that describes the way that learners select and represent information (Pask, 1976; Pask & Scott, 1972).
Coordinate terms
* (education) serialistNoun
(en noun)page 21,
- The holists generally claimed that the variety of the clinical pictures was not intrinsic to aphasia, although it was recognized that aphasic patients differ in many respects, not only the severity of the language disorder.
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- Holism is more eclectic in its methods; for most holists , rigor means reconstructing the meaning of an action in the subject's own terms, and interpreting it in light of a richly detailed cultural, social, and historical context.
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- By contrast, the holists , like Emile Durkheim, regard individual action as only a reaction to pressures exerted by society as a whole: they are right in stressing the social embeddedness of individual action.
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- Those subjects using a serialist strategy tended to proceed in a step-by-step manner, whereas the holists adopted a more global approach to what was to be learned.
page 87,
- They[serialists] learn rules, methods and details more readily than the holists .
page 209,
- Holists''''' use a global, thematic approach to learning by concentrating first on building broad descriptions.The ' holist then uses complex links to relate mutileveled information.
Coordinate terms
* (believer in or practitioner of holism) reductionist * (education) serialistSee also
* positivism * reductionismAnagrams
*null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.