Reductionist approach to instruction

While most instructional theorist take a prescriptive or descriptive approach to instruction, the 3-Person model offers a reductionist approach.

Take any given instructional situation. Determine (reduce) what the key elements are.
[The 3-person model reduces instruction, and therefore learning, to Roles (people), Knowledge (content and context), and Experiences (interactions)]

Once you have determined what the key elements of instruction are, determine (reduce) the key elements of each of those.
[The 3-person model reduces Roles to the L/T role, Knowledge to Purpose and Values (context) Main Idea and Validations (content), and Experience to capture, expand, teach, and evaluate]

You can further drill down into each of these elements and reduce them further but that may be unnecessary.

Now reduce the complexity of instruction down to 3 people. With 3 people, you have all of the interaction possibilities that you would have with a larger classroom or social environment. Reducing the interaction to 2 people is simply insufficient because interactions in classroom and social environments do not occur in isolated dyad relationships. A simple consideration of these facts will be enough to support the reduction of learning and teaching to 3 people instead of 2 people.

The reduction approach is open to interpretation and flexible because is is not prescriptive. It is also not perfectly descriptive because it does not claim to identify every element of learning and instruction, only the most prominent or important ones.

The power of the reductionist approach is that it minimizes complexity and empowers individuals to channel energy into learning and instruction where that energy efficiency is maximized. That is the goal of the reductionist approach:

Minimize complexity and maximize energy efficiency

This approach will lead to breakthroughs in fields not just related to education. It can change the world as we know it...