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> In 1988 when Dijkstra wrote this piece, cognitive science journals were only about a decade old, and learning sciences wasn’t established until the 1990s.

Cognitive science is a re-branding of earlier work in psychology, and constructivism has been around since the late 50's (see Jerome Bruner's work).

It's potentially a sad commentary on academia that fields appear to ignore other fields more than N hops away, where N>=2.



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