Books by Gordon Pask

An Approach to Cybernetics, Hutchinson, London, 1961.
Introduction to cybernetics as Pask sees it. Pictures and descriptions of his early machines, including Eucrates, SAKI, and chemical computers.
The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance, Hutchinson, London, 1975.
Clear explanation of performing 'subjective', psychological experiments in objective frame, including null-point technique. Pictures of tracking task apparati and original CASTE.
Conversation, Cognition and Learning, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1975.
Modeling subject matter for training using entailment meshes. L1/L0 framework applied to learning conversations. CASTE and BOSS machines.
Conversation Theory: Applications in Education and Epistemology, Amsterdam, Elsevier Publishing Co., 1976. Reframing past work into a theory framework. THOUGHTSTICKER, INTUITION, and STATLAB learning environments.
Calculator Saturnalia (with Glanville and Robinson), Wildwood, London, 1980. Pask's fantastical illustrations and sci-fi scenario accompany his collaborators' games for collaboration via calculator rich with social commentary.
MicroMan (with S. Curran), MacMillan, 1982.

The most findable of Pask's books, a thinly disguised review of his own work, the most approachable.

Pask published many books (as well as over 250 papers) usually written in ideosyncratic vocabulary and style. The books are out of print but often available on the web. Some papers are online or available on request.

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