ANNOTATION:
Gordon Pask's "Conversation Theory"

Considering your outline, it seems that a reference to Gordon Pask may be appropriate here. Pasks writings are not easy to digest, but he proposed a model which would fit very well in this section. In "Conversation, Cognition and Learning" (1975), Pask offered a cybernetic and dialectic model for the construction of knowledge. It involved the interaction between two cognitive systems (e.g. a teacher and student). The two would engage in a dialog over a given concept, recognizing their differences in perception about the concept. After multiple iterations of this process, their differences would be reduced until agreement is reached between them. The residue of the interaction would then be archived into an "entailment mesh", a collection of shared concepts known as "public knowledge". One instantiation of the Pask model today is a public, online forum, such as usenet or listserv interest groups. Practioners, students and other interested people engage in conversations over specific concepts. Concepts are debated in an informal fashion, and those interpretations which gain general acceptance are archived in a special file called a "FAQ".

Author: lia lestari (leony[ at ]gurlmail.com)
Date: Mar 14, 1999