what is a "systemic approach"?

Question

i need to write an essay on the pros and cons of Paulo friere's approach and how it could hinder/help kids with behavioural and emotional problems in residential care.

I am not trying to get anybody to write my essay for me like fae seems to think. I am stuck with a question i dont understand. i cant just pop in to see my tutor or go to the library because im in africa!!!!

Answer 1

It could mean based on a type of system to implement or the many values a systemic approach is based on such as: emotions, living conditions, and other social and behavioral attributes.

Answer 2

The word “systemic” or “systemical” is used for describing those ways of thinking and behaving in the course of work with people, which conceive of a person as an autonomous and competent system and deal with a group of people as a social system. Any group, be it a company or a family or other organisation, is thus considered as a social system made up of human systems. On the one hand, it is possible to influence groups as a whole (as a system), and on the other, as individuals (employees).

The standard approaches are based on orders, advice and “external truth”. By understanding an individual in a new way, the systemic approach allows the finding of new, more effective ways of helping, development, influencing and directing people in social work, psychotherapy, education, management and the like. This approach enables us to understand people as autonomous and unchangeable beings, who, in their mutual relationships remain opaque to each other. Therefore it is impossible to fully understand them, nor to change or instruct them at will. Knowledge and communication are taken as mutually interlacing processes.

http://www.extima.org/en/any.asp?page=systapp

The analytic and the systemic approaches are more complementary than opposed, yet neither one is reducible to the other.

The analytic approach seeks to reduce a system to its elementary elements in order to study in detail and understand the types of interaction that exist between them. By modifying one variable at a time, it tries to infer general laws that will enable one to predict the properties of a system under very different conditions. To make this prediction possible, the laws of the additivity of elementary properties must be invoked. This is the case in homogeneous systems, those composed of similar elements and having weak interactions among them. Here the laws of statistics readily apply, enabling one to understand the behavior of the multitude-of disorganized complexity.

The laws of the additivity of elementary properties do not apply in highly complex systems composed of a large diversity of elements linked together by strong interactions. These systems must be approached by new methods such as those which the systemic approach groups together. The purpose of the new methods is to consider a system in its totality, its complexity, and its own dynamics Through simulation one can "animate" a system and observe in real time the effects of the different kinds of interactions among its elements. The study of this behavior leads in time to the determination of rules that can modify the system or design other systems.

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ANALSYST.html

Answer 3

certain way of doing things.

Answer 4

Well "You" can't if you have others write it for you!