Discourse, tools, and reasoning : essays on situated cognition /
To reason is to talk. To think is to use tools. To learn is to join a community of practice. This book explores thought and reasoning as inherently social practices, as actions situated in specific environments of demand, opportunity, and accountability. Authors from diverse disciplines - psychology...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin :
Springer,
[1997]
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| Series: | NATO ASI series. Computer and systems sciences ;
no. 160. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | To reason is to talk. To think is to use tools. To learn is to join a community of practice. This book explores thought and reasoning as inherently social practices, as actions situated in specific environments of demand, opportunity, and accountability. Authors from diverse disciplines - psychology, sociology, artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology - examine how people think and learn in settings as diverse as a factory, a classroom or an airplane cockpit. The tools that people use in these varied settings are both physical technologies and cultural constructions: concepts, structures of reasoning, and forms of discourse. This volume in the NATO Special Programme on Advanced Educational Technology is based on an international conference on situated cognition and learning technologies. |
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| Item Description: | "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division." "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Situated Cognition and Technologically Supported Environments, held in Lucca (Il Ciocco), Italy, November 2-7, 1993"--Title page verso. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 474 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9783662033623 3662033623 |