The Nature of Cognition and Action Tony Clear Computing Systems Development Faculty of Commerce Auckland Institute of Technology, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1020, New Zealand Tony.Clear@ ait.ac.nz " nderlying the established paradigm of computer science, is a very strong set of dualisms - the dualism between now and the future, between thought and deed, between decision and action. The strong emphasis on processes of abstraction and the need for generic structures and rigor arise from this. Algorithms, for instance, are seen as optimal ways of performing certain calculations, or tasks which are planned to recur frequently in the future. However as researchers, and educators engaged in preparing tomorrow's practitioners, is it time to reconsider our deductive approach to pedagogy and practice. Is there a need to adopt more inductive, exploratory and interactive teaching and development models, which may inherently be seen to lack the traditional rigor. Is it time to rethink the nature of what we mean by the term programming. This could require us to revisit some long, and firmly cherished, beliefs about how we think and know, and how we act and do. Is cognition then, a process of detached, abstract reflection and consideration, or rather
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The nature of cognition and action
Clear, Tony
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, Volume 29 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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