Knowledge as Design

by David N. Perkins

Book Overview

First published in 1986. We all play the roles of teacher or learner many times in life, in school and home, on the job and even at play. How can we strengthen those roles, striving for deep understanding and sound thinking? Knowledge As Design demonstrates the strong but neglected unity between learning and critical and creative thinking. Author David Perkins discloses how the con-cept of design opens a doorway into a deeper exploration of any topic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 089859863X
• ISBN13: 9780898598636
• Release Date: August 1986
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

ESSENTIAL READING FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN SUPERIOR THINKING SKILLS AND FRAMEWORKS FOR REINVENTING M

Long ago, in 1985, I found a brilliant yet relative unknown scholar, a superior observer, analyst, and synthesist in the emerging fields of cognitive science, David N. Perkins. One of the first formats I learned from Dr. Perkins for high-level cognition and meta-cognition was KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN. I have actively used and evolved or re-created in my own ways the original KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN format I learned directly from David N. Perkins. I can suggest no better place to start that KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN! Along with this work, I suggest you enjoy the wry and insightful humor of David Perkin's own mind as reflected in THE MIND'S BEST WORK along with THE EUREKA EFFECT. I work in the field on intelligence (geostrategic), military psychology, cognitive psychology, and natural medicine. On countless situations, I found and continue to find when my cognitive back, so to speak, is against the wall - I find myself calling upon the cognitive format(s) inherent in KNOWLEDGE AS DESIGN and other formats for creative and critical thinking created by the fertile mind of David Perkins, educated, as well, in Artificial Intelligence at MIT. In one instance, in a combat situation, the use of David's formats for superior thinking literally saved my life. I would be delighted to correspond with other readers whose interest are in the development of new ways of thinking, the development of new ways of inventing mind, as it were, at will. I can be reached at: anthony_giannini@post.harvard.edu A. Giannini, D.Nat.Med, Ed.M., M.A.