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Educating the design stance: Issues of coherence and transgression

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Norman H. Freeman  and
Melissa L. Allen
Norman H. Freeman
Affiliation:
University of Bristol & Lancaster University, School of Experimental Psychology, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TU, United Kingdom. n.freeman@bris.ac.ukhttp://www.bristol.ac.uk/expsych/people/norman-h-freeman/overview.html
Melissa L. Allen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Fylde College, Lancaster, LA1 4YF, United Kingdom. melissa.allen@lancaster.ac.ukhttp://www.psych.lancs.ac.uk/people/melissa-allen
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Abstract

Bullot & Reber (B&R) put forth a design stance to fuse psychological and art historical accounts of visual thinking into a single theory. We argue that this aspect of their proposal needs further fine-tuning. Issues of transgression and coherence are necessary to provide stability to the design stance. We advocate looking to Art Education for such fundamentals of picture understanding.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 141 - 142
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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