Kybernetes: Volume 30 Issue 7/8

Gordon Pask and his influence on our thinking on poetry and music

Eric Rosseel, Linda Dasseville

The present paper sketches the way Gordon Pask has influenced our lives as human beings and intellectuals. The first part refers to some of our memories of Gordon Pask as a most…

Conversation and research

Jan Gerrit Schuurman, Koen Veermans

Gordon Pask’s conversation theory was created in the 1970s. The theory encompasses a high‐level framework for studying interactions between actors in artificial situations where…

Gordon Pask’s contributions to psychology

Bernard Scott

This paper reviews the contributions of Gordon Pask, cybernetician, to the discipline of psychology as a methodologist and as a theoretician. Pask was prolific in many fields but…

Prototypical applications of cybernetic systems in architectural contexts: A tribute to Gordon Pask

Pete Silver, Felix Dodd, Tom Holdon, Chris Leung, Josephine Pletts

The architectural implications and applications of the work and teachings of Gordon Pask have been explored through a number of avenues, and in particular through his long‐term…

Conversational science and advanced learning technologies (ALT): Tools for conversational pedagogy

Laurie Thomas, Sheila Harri‐Augstein

This paper questions the validity of traditional scientific method for the study of human learning and proposes five postulates for the advancement of a conversational science. It…

What have we learnt about student learning? : A review of the research on study approach and style

Stella Tickle

The potential value of student learning research to applied fields cannot be overstated. Research needs to inform educationalists on how students learn with a view to improving…

Remembering Gordon Pask

Ernst von Glasersfeld

It was a rare pleasure to have known Gordon Pask. Here is a brief tribute.

Interaction of actors theory

Gerard de Zeeuw

Gordon Pask developed not only a conversation theory, but also a (less well‐known) interaction of actors theory, partly in response to demands during the time he worked in…

Classification techniques for person‐job matching: An illustration using the US Army

J. Zeidner, D. Scholarios, C.D. Johnson

This paper presents the case for personnel systems based on maximizing the differential information gathered about individual abilities and their match to jobs. In the context of…

Variations on a string bag: Using Pask’s principles for practical course design

R.S. Zimmer

Situation and problem: a course‐writing team needs to converge rapidly to what it regards as: an agreed topic structure, which is keyed to agreed learning objectives, which…

Remembering Gordon Pask

James M. Bradburne

Here I recall fondly times spent with Gordon and acknowledge his influence on my ideas and work.

A small tribute to a great loss

James Powell

Here I pay tribute to Gordon Pask who through only a small intervention changed the whole nature of the way I undertook my future studies.

Introduction

Bernard Scott, Ranulph Glanville

Afterword: the process of this memorial

Bernard Scott, Ranulph Glanville

Gordon Pask publications

Preface

Brian H. Rudall