Instructional emphasis is on developing meaning in context. The Interpretivist model favors anchored instruction, situated cognition, cognitive apprenticeships, and cognitive flexibility hypertext. Interpretivists emphasize knowledge in context. Designers favor development of simulations, hypermedia or multimedia information resources, and electronic encyclopedias. It is important to give students access to bodies of information.
Instruction relies less on textbooks and more on information resources.
The role of language in defining reality To the Postpositivist in professional practice, language is a link between what we believe and what is really out there. Therefore, objective tests, usually with one right answer, determine success. Problems, when properly defined, have straightforward solutions. If the situation seems fuzzy, it is because we have not thought it through properly, according to the Postpositivist. Professional practice on the part of the Interpretivist takes the form of Constructivism.