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RADICAL PEDAGOGY

T. R. Young
The Red Feather Institute

February 23, 1995

 Menu Item No. 022  THE GREAT FLYING CHAOS THEORY MACHINE.

Distributed as part of the Red Feather Institute RADICAL PEDAGOGY Series.

The Red Feather Institute, 8085 Essex, Weidman, Michigan, 48893.

Cost: 20 Generic pts.  Payoff: Up to 25 Quality Points.

Limit: 10 people may 'buy' this assignment.

These Field Assignments and Special Projects are co-ordinated with the Point Menu of The Great Flying Chaos Learning Circus...an interactively rich and informationally diverse Syllabus.   The weight assigned to each Menu Item assumes a 200 pt. budget; i.e., students are 'given' 200 points with which they may 'buy' an assignment.  Of the 200 pts, 100 must be spent on tests.  Students can earn a grade without taking final examinations in this Syllabus...hence students are greatly motivated to 'spend' points.

One need not use the GFCLC; just adapt the assignment and point total to your own syllabus.

DIRECTIONS:  
A. USE EITHER MEADIAN THEORY, FREUDIAN THEORY, WEBERIAN OR 
	MARXIAN/CONFLICT THEORY TO GENERATE 10 [TEN] HYPOTHESES.  
B. FORMULATE AT LEAST TWO HYPOTHESES FROM EACH THEORIST. 
C.   EXPLAIN WHY MEADIAN, FREUDIAN OR MARXIAN THEORY WOULD LEAD ONE 
	TO EXPECT THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU HYPOTHESIZE.  USE COMPLETE 
	SENTENCES EXCEPT WHEN YOU SPECIFY THE DIRECTION OF THE 
	RELATIONSHIP.  
	THEN JUST SAY THAT IT IS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP OR
        AN INVERSE RELATIONSHIP...or a Non-Linear Relationship.
	NOTE: be sure to study the tutorial before you use Non-
	linearity as a pattern of relationship!
D. PROCEDURE: TAKE ANY ONE OF THE INDEPENDENT VARIABLES AND USE THEM 
	TO REDICT THE BEHAVIOR OF A DEPENDENT VARIABLES; 
	DO THIS TEN TIMES.  USE DIFFERENT VARIABLES each time.

E. INDEPENDENT VARIABLES you may use:  AGE, RACE, CLASS, GENDER, 
	I.Q., EDUCATION, RELIGION, ETHNICITY
   DEPENDENT VARIABLES you may use: UNEMPLOYMENT, POVERTY, CRIME,
     
F. THEORIST                
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