Reductionism vs Holist - What's the difference?
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an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components
(philosophy) Reductionism is a philosophical position which holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts, and that an account of it can be reduced to accounts of individual constituents. This can be said of objects, phenomena, explanation, theories, and meanings. Reductionism strongly reflects a certain perspective on causality. In a reductionist framework, the phenomena that can be explained completely in terms of relations between other more fundamental phenomena, are called "epiphenomena". Often there is an implication that the epiphenomenon exerts no causal agency on the fundamental phenomena that explain it. Reductionism does not preclude the existence of what might be called "emergent phenomena", but it does imply the ability to understand those phenomena completely in terms of the processes from which they are composed.
(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 ,
Reductionism is a see also of holist.
As nouns the difference between reductionism and holist
is that reductionism is an approach to studying complex systems or ideas by reducing them to a set of simpler components while 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.As an adjective holist is
(education|of a learning strategy) that concentrates on forming an overview of the topic.reductionism
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(wikipedia reductionism)See also
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- suggests that these strategies reflect basic learning styles; holist strategies reflect a comprehension learning style and serialist strategies an operation learning style.
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- 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.
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- 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).
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* (education) serialistNoun
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- 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.
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- They[serialists] learn rules, methods and details more readily than the holists .
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- 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.