Pattern Theory

Auteur

Rachel H. Ellaway is a professor in Community Health Sciences, and Director of the Office of Health and Medical Education Scholarship, at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Résumé
This book examines the meaning and implications of pattern, presenting a comprehensive body of theory that unifies concepts of form, order, and regularity and connects them to memory and perception.

Contenu

Acknowledgements

1. An Introduction

Word Games

Structure of the Book

References

2: We Need to Talk about Pattern

Philosophical Perspectives on Pattern

Design Patterns and Pattern Languages

Mathematics and Patterns

Pattern and Mind

Pattern Aesthetics

Chapter Summary

References

3: Form, Order, and Regularity

Form

Order

Regularity

Chapter Summary

References

4: Perception and Pattern

Patterns and Memories

Pattern Perception

Abductive, Integrative, Efficient

Attention, Cueing, Anticipation

Micropattern, Mesopattern, Macropattern

Pause for Thought

Chapter Summary

References

5: Pattern Thinking

Affordances

Interpretations

Pattern Reasoning

Affective Pattern Thinking

Pattern and Learning

Pattern and Learning Theory

Shared Pattern Thinking

Limits to Pattern Thinking

Artificial Pattern Thinking

Chapter Summary

References

6: Externalising Patterns

Pattern Instances

Pattern Expressions

Pattern Representations

Pattern Systems and Pattern Languages

Pattern Creativity

Chapter Summary

References

7: Pattern Philosophy

Pattern Ontologies

General Pattern Epistemologies

Macropattern Epistemologies

Pattern Meta-epistemology

Pattern Axiology

Chapter Summary

References

8: The Basis of Pattern Inquiry

Patterned Theory

Pattern Inquiry

Methodological Precedents

Chapter Summary

References

9: The Practicalities of Pattern Inquiry

Worked Example Developing a Pattern System

Pattern-Informed Inquiry

Implied and Latent Pattern Thinking

Integrating Pattern Inquiry

Rigour and Integrity in Pattern Science

Chapter Summary

References

10. A Pattern Manifesto

Patterns

Pattern Thinking

Shared Pattern Thinking

Pattern Inquiry

Situating Pattern Theory

Word Games

Conclusions

References

Index