Peircean architectonics as an interdisciplinary paradigm organized by triadic logic¶

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Description¶

Architectonics is presented as the cross-disciplinary term for the systematic, constructivist nature of all relations and creations, appropriated by Peirce from Kant's art of constructing systems of knowledge. Its distinguishing feature is triadic logic: firstness is a monadic relation, secondness a dyadic relation, and thirdness their convergence, which grounds the synechism or continuity produced by integrative forces. The article uses this paradigm to reframe integration in SoTL and to interpret online education theory. As the article states, "The most distinguishing feature in Peirce's architectonics is the triadic logic that animates his arrangement of the disciplines."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Educators must adopt architectonic logic as an interpretive lens for connecting disciplinary frameworks rather than treating disciplines as silos

Constraints¶

• The article presents this as a philosophical synthesis and meta-synthesis, not an empirically tested intervention

Target Learners¶

• higher education faculty
• online educators

Target Learning Objectives¶

• interdisciplinary integration of knowledge
• scholarship of teaching and learning

Claims¶

• Kantian architectonics is an early articulation of constructivism, with knowledge constructed into a system [+W]

Related Theories¶

• Architectonics: the philosophical tradition of building and relating meaning, knowledge, and experience
• Dialogism, intertextuality, and hypertextuality: the language-centered genealogy leading to connectivism
• Three metaphors of time in knowledge organization systems: architectonic, ouroboric, and lachesic
• Constructivism learning theory: knowledge as assumption, learning as active construction, students as subjects, teachers as helpers
• Kantian architectonics: a theory of the systematic, constructivist organization of relations in cognition and higher education
• The Kantian Effect: a metaphor and paradigm linking intertextuality and interdisciplinarity through four dialogic principles

Examples¶

• Bernauer and Tomei's integrated matrix of five faculty integrator quadrants
• Four architectonic guiding principles for integrating teaching, learning, and technology

Key Sources¶

• Dennis, J. (2022). (Re)Framing Our Frames: Architectonics, Intertextuality, and the Scholarship of Integration in Online Education. Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 48(2). https://www.cjlt.ca. doi:10.21432/cjlt28123