Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1976

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Harmes, Harold M.

Abstract

As systems, schools receive inputs from their suprasystems and produce output which is returned to the suprasystems. Criteria for evaluating quality of output are best defined by the suprasystems which receive the output. When school systems produce output which meets suprasystem criteria, a state of concordance between the educational subsystem and its suprasystems is achieved. However, the out-put of an educational system may not meet the expectations of its suprasystems. Deductive analysis is the method used in this dissertation for establishing proof of cyclic irrelevancy from the assumptions, definitions and postulates widely accepted by scholars in the field of systems theory. Corollaries which logically follow are also formulated. Based upon the identification and description of cyclic irrelevancy and its corollaries, a theoretical prescriptive model for interruption of cyclic irrelevancy is described.

Extent

86 p.

Comments

Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.|College of Education|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (Educat.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1976.

Identifier

FADT11672

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