Applying Vygotsky - Gillani and Relan's Instructional Design Model

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APPLICATION

Gillani and Relan (1997, 232) contend that "the interactive nature of frames in interdisciplinary instructional design has the potential of implementing cognitive theories as its theoretical foundation."

Based on David Ausubel's idea of advance organizers "as a cognitive strategy that links prior knowledge structure with new information" (1968 as cited in Gillani and Relan 1997, 232), as well as, Vygotsky's idea of instructional tools and the four learning stages as defined by his 'zone of proximal development', Gillani and Relan proposed an instructional design model having four phases:

  • advance organizer phase

  • modeling phase

  • exploring phase

  • generating phase

© 1999 by Peter J. Patsula

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