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Colour theory and learning by exploration

By Steve Draper,   Department of Psychology,   University of Glasgow.

This page will be the index to stuff related to Marianne Patera's paper(s) on teaching colour theory.

M. Patera, S.W. Draper and M. McWhirr (2005) "Using educational theory and advanced technology in colour education" accepted for 10th Congress of the International Colour Association AIC Colour 05 in May 2005.

A longer, perhaps rougher, version of this paper.

The tasks:

The task specification always was "Arrange this set of coloured tiles in any way that seems logical to you".
The various task sets (subsets of the complete collection of coloured tiles) as an expert in the theory would arrange them: Task1 Task1 Task1

The diverse ways learners have of organising the colours

All sets, before any training

one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares


Sub sets

one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares


Combining all sets

one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares one arrangement of squares



the sphere the sphere the sphere



Using digital not cardboard materials

the sphere the sphere the sphere

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