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GLOSSARY INQUIRY: REPRESENTATIONISM
The view that knowledge consists internal, mental representations of an external reality —
a view disputed by complex accounts of cognition.
Representationism assumes that individual minds are insulated from the world and isolated from other minds; learning is a matter of assembling internal mental representations
(or models) of real, external objects and events. It is so is entrenched in modern Western thinking that it has assumed the status of “common sense”, in spite of the fact that there is no empirical support for this view.
In education, representationist assumptions are woven not only into “common sense” understandings of learning, but also into influential theories like behaviourism and cognitivism (which understands the brain through the metaphor of a computer, or information processor).
See related terms: Knowledge.
