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Prescriptive approaches seek to declare one standard or recommended badge earning path over another. This approach can feel more limiting and formal to a badge earner because they're compelled to follow a proposed pathway or drop out of the pathway entirely. Prescriptive approaches may be built on summative assessment. | Prescriptive approaches seek to declare one standard or recommended badge earning path over another. This approach can feel more limiting and formal to a badge earner because they're compelled to follow a proposed pathway or drop out of the pathway entirely. Prescriptive approaches may be built on summative assessment. | ||
''' | * '''Command path''': suggested or recommended badge arcs. | ||
* '''Contract path''': desired or pledged badge groupings. | |||
* '''Badge desire path''': independently followed or pursued badge passages. | |||
The importance of the distinctions between these paths cannot be overemphasized. Why? Because to the earner, each of these avenues will feel very different. | |||
===== Command pathways ===== | |||
The command approach is the most prescriptive: it relies on a formal, structured and recommended path. Most likely, this badge pathway will be linear—a straight line from one learning experience to another. This is not unlike what occurs in many school courses. | |||
===== Contract pathways ===== | |||
The contract path encourages the earner to think about and select a potential learning arc. In the strictest sense, it, too, is prescriptive. But because its prescriptiveness is set forth by the earner herself, the potentially dictatorial nature does not carry the same paternalistic qualities. | |||
===== Desire pathways ===== | |||
The badge desire path carries with it the greatest capacity for knowledge and system emergence. When there is no prescribed pathway, people can find the way that makes sense to them; can choose to follow other people’s paths or can strike out in very different directions. | |||
=== Levels === | === Levels === | ||