Andrea diSessa

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Andrea diSessa is an education researcher who has authored Turtle geometry and Changing Minds (2000). diSessa has made many significant contributions to research on intuitive physics and physics education. He is currently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Also a member of the National Academy for Education, he has written stalwart papers such as Toward an Epistemology of Physics in 1993.

diSessa created the Boxer Programming Environment, with Hal Abelson of MIT.