This multimedia set is seventeenth in the ETC system series tracing the conceptualization of systems from the origin in 1914 to the present time. It has been used by Dr. Silvern in many of his courses and is now being released so the information he so painstakingly assembled and analyzed can be more widely studied.
The set consists of 80 color 35mm slides, a 58-minute audio cassette and 4 large, printed flowchart models used when the resolution of the slides does not permit detailed examinations. Essentially an introduction to modeling, as a stage in anasynthesis (analysis, synthesis, modeling and
simulation) it describes in graphic terms how the present day cybernetic model evolved from engineering and science and reluctantly was incorporated in education and training as a powerful technique.
Narrated by Silvern, who has been recognized as the "father of systems thinking in education," it complements the other sets and texts in this series which deal primarily with the principles of anasynthesis.
