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 * http://www.edpsycinteractive.org/anisa/
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The American National Institute for Social Advancement (ANISA) model of education, founded by Daniel C. Jordan AND Donard T. Streets, classifies curriculum content into four areas - the physical environment, the human environment, the unknown environment, and the self - and encourages horizontal integration between content areas. The ANISA model holds that the process of learning consists of differentiation, integration, and generalization. The teacher's role is to help the learner achieve process as well as content goals, thus teaching the child to become a competent learner. The ANISA Model represents a comprehensive educational system functionally defined by specifications which insure its replicability, evaluation, and refinement. The specifications set educational goals pertaining to the actualization of human potential and explanations of how to achieve them.

History
From 1971 until 1975, Dr. Jordan, with the his long-time friend, former doctoral student, and administrative assistant Dr. Donald T. Streets, directed the Center for the Study of Human Potential at the University of Massachusetts. His principle endeavor at the Center was the ANISA Project in which he guided the conceptualization of a comprehensive educational system organized around a philosophical base. From this process philosophy foundation a coherent body of theory concerning development, teaching, curriculum, evaluation, and administration was generated. Dr. Jordan also guided the successful fielding of the ANISA Model of Education in Hampden, Maine; Suffield, Connecticut; Fall Rivers, Massachusetts; Kansas City, Missouri; and in southern Ohio.

The 5 Psychological Potentialities
psycho-motor perceptual cognitive affective volitional

Criticism
While noting that the model is a carefully thought out comprehensive theory, this critical review uses the area of language acquisition to question ANISA assumptions about how humans learn, and discusses another model of learning presented by Joseph Chilton Pearce which maintains that the learner creates an inner model of outer stimuli according to his or her developmental constraints. This inner model is successively refined as the learner gains experience. Pearce's model differs from the ANISA model in that the learner's working theory of "how it all works" provides the categories for classifying incoming data. While the ANISA framework is a model of the linear sequential thinking prevalent in the Western world, the changing paradigms of modern science may be closing the door on scientism, and the capacity of the ANISA model to incorporate these changing paradigms will be the measure of its viability. The Alexander Indian Reserve, near Edmonton, Canada, has based its school philosophy on the ANISA model with dramatic results: attendance has doubled, vandalism has dropped, academic scores have risen, and community involvement has increased from 15 to 500 parents and friends attending home and school nights.