14 quotes
Man is always aiming to achieve some goal and he is always looking for new goals.
Pask (1968)
A [learning] style is a disposition to adopt one class of learning strategy.
Learning Strategies, Teaching Strategies, and Conceptual or Learning Style (1988)
Complex human learning is a concept involving communication between the participant in the learning process, who commonly occupy the roles of learner and teacher.
Pask (1976)
Cybernetics offers a scientific approach to the cussedness of organisms, suggests how their behaviours can be catalysed and the mystique and rule of thumb banished.
An Approach to Cybernetics (1961)
To summarize the matter, teaching systems ought to be conversational in form and so devised that strategies are matched to individual competence.
Pask (1975)
Consistency of the person's strategic preference across tests (and subject matters) is curiously high.
Learning Strategies, Teaching Strategies, and Conceptual or Learning Style (1988)
By definition, a pair of inherently unmeasurable, non-stationary systems, are coupled to produce an inherently measurable stationary system.
An Approach to Cybernetics (1961)
Cybernetics is the science or the art of manipulating defensible metaphors; showing how they may be constructed and what can be inferred as a result of their existence.
Pask (1966)
Serialists fall into difficulties if they fail to distinguish the wood from the trees and consequently try to assimilate masses of sparsely related irrelevant information
Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972)
It is worth stressing that once the entailment structure for a subject matter is available, together with its task structure, these can be used to design any kind of course or curriculum.
Conversation, Cognition and Learning (1975)
Development of an organism from a single germ cell into a multicellular entity is a self-organizing system from any point of view and I wish to contend that this self-organizing system is a subsystem of the self-organizing system called 'evolution'.
An Approach to Cybernetics (1961)
If cognitive processes can be realized in a general machine then it is possible to execute mental operations in artifacts that are not necessarily subject to the embarrassing spatio-temporal limitations and structural frailties of a biological processor.
Conversation, Cognition and Learning (1975)
[A serialist]... checks the relevance of the information entering his list by forming single predicate hypotheses .... A structure is built up in orderly stages.
Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972)
Since human beings are highly adaptable it may be possible for an individual with any sort of competence to learn, in the end, according to any teaching strategy. But the experiments show, very clearly indeed, that the rate, quality and durability of learning is crucially dependent upon whether or not the teaching strategy is of a sort that suits the individual
Learning Strategies and Individual Competence (1972)