Understanding Practice brings together many different perspectives that have been applied to examining social context. From Ole Dreier's work on the therapeutic relationship, to Hugh Mehan's work on learning disabled students, to Charles and Janet Keller's work on blacksmithing, the chapters form a diverse and fascinating look at situated learning. A distinctive feature of the book is the wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches to the problem of understanding cognition in everyday settings.
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'Understanding Practice is an important contribution to the direction of the field. It has a cohesive theme that is timely in the direction of several disciplines, including psychology, anthropology and education.' Barbara Rogoff
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The chapters in this collection form a fascinating view of situated learning, bringing together many different perspectives. They range from Ole Dreier's work on the therapeutic relationship to Hugh Mehan's work on learning disabled students and Charles and Janet Keller's work on blacksmithing.
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representational directives, monistic real world, standard steaming watch, nonrepresentational meaning, representational speech, biplane box, skimmer handle, particular behavior setting, subjective reasons for action, bearing taker, first number family, situational sense, societal mediation, umbrella plan, stimulated recall interview, representational interpretation, navigation activity, cooking club, fix cycle, graphical formalisms, anchor detail, behavior settings, delayed children, subjective rationality, verbal tactics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Jean Lave, Lawrence Erlbaum, Academic Press, Front Range, Seth Chaiklin, Charles Keller, Stanford University Press, University of California, Beverly Hills, Child Development, Forum Kritische Psychologie, Steinar Kvale, Basic Books, Englewood Cliffs, Miss Counihan, Northwestern University, Free Press, International Congress, University of Chicago Press, Ballast Point, Bender Gestalt, Columbia University Press New!
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Seth Chaiklin and I initiated this project, but we discussed it with Steinar Kvale very early on and he has been our colleague and advisor on the project ever since. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
representational directives, monistic real world, standard steaming watch, nonrepresentational meaning, representational speech, biplane box, skimmer handle, particular behavior setting, subjective reasons for action, bearing taker, first number family, situational sense, societal mediation, umbrella plan, stimulated recall interview, representational interpretation, navigation activity, cooking club, fix cycle, graphical formalisms, anchor detail, behavior settings, delayed children, subjective rationality, verbal tactics Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Harvard University Press, Jean Lave, Lawrence Erlbaum, Academic Press, Front Range, Seth Chaiklin, Charles Keller, Stanford University Press, University of California, Beverly Hills, Child Development, Forum Kritische Psychologie, Steinar Kvale, Basic Books, Englewood Cliffs, Miss Counihan, Northwestern University, Free Press, International Congress, University of Chicago Press, Ballast Point, Bender Gestalt, Columbia University Press New!
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- Union County (GA) (Images of America) by Union County Historical Society on page 133, page 134, and page 142
- Child Development by Heather Brennand on page 325, and page 373
- Social Psychology by Ronald J. Fisher on page 208, and page 266
- Michel Foucault by Hubert L. (Hubert Lederer) Dreyfus on page 400, and page 401
- Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Gavriel Salomon in Front Matter
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- Context and Consciousness: Activity Theory and Human-Computer Interaction by Bonnie A. Nardi on 5 pages
- Cognition and Communication at Work by Yrjo Engeström on 4 pages
- Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by David Barton on 4 pages
- Distributed Learning: Social and Cultural Approaches to Practice by Mary R. Lea in Front Matter, page 95, and page 96
- Mentoring and Developing Practice in Primary Schools: Supporting Student Teacher Learning in Schools by Anne Edwards on page 30, page 105, and Back Matter
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