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"The diversity of approaches to programming suggests that equal access to even the most basic elements of computation requires accepting the validity of multiple ways of knowing and thinking, an epistemological pluralism. ere we use the word epistemology in a sense closer to Piaget's than to the philosopher's. In the traditional usage, the goal of epistemology is to inquire into the nature of knowledge and the conditions of its validity; and only one form of knowledge, the propositional, is taken to be valid.
"The step taken by Piaget in his definition of epistemologie genetique was to eschew inquiry into the "true" nature of knowledge in favor of a comparative study of the diverse nature of different kinds of knowledge, in his case the kinds encountered in children of different ages. We differ from Piaget on an important point, however. Where he saw diverse forms of knowledge in terms of stages to a finite end point of formal reason, we see different approaches to knowledge as styles, each equally valid on its own terms."
From Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture
"The step taken by Piaget in his definition of epistemologie genetique was to eschew inquiry into the "true" nature of knowledge in favor of a comparative study of the diverse nature of different kinds of knowledge, in his case the kinds encountered in children of different ages. We differ from Piaget on an important point, however. Where he saw diverse forms of knowledge in terms of stages to a finite end point of formal reason, we see different approaches to knowledge as styles, each equally valid on its own terms."
From Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture
