My speculation, re correlations, is that dominance of a
school of thought is correlated with hierarchical structure of a
discipline.
Barbara Brown
"Antony Davies, Ph.D." wrote:
> > Of course, in the Soviet Union under Stalin, there was only one
> > school of thought in evolutionary biology: Lamarckianism.
>
> The major difference, of course, is that the emerging consensus for
> neo-classicalism occurs in a free environment. The consensus for
> Larmarckianism emerged in a totalitarian environment.
>
> I hear Michael's point that dominance of a school of thought is correlated
> with highly structured curriculum. I am not, however, convinced of the
> direction of causality: does the structured curriculum push us toward a
> neo-classical consensus, or does the rise of a neo-classical consensus
> result in a structured curriculum?
>
> Antony Davies, Ph.D.
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