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Direct linkCliff, Alan F.; Woodward, Rob – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2004
This paper reports the results of a small-scale (n = 9) interview study of the "ways of knowing" of academics in a Design School at a South African polytechnic. The focus of the study was on exploring the perceptions of these academics about discipline-specific knowledge in their fields. The paper presents an analysis of the responses,…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disciplines, Foreign Countries, Perception, Interviews
Peer reviewedOtte, Michael – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1990
Compared and contrasted are the concepts intuition and logic. The ideas of conceptual thought and algorithmic thought are discussed in terms of the world as a labyrinth, intuition and time, and the structure of knowledge. (KR)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algorithms, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Processes
