Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives – serie
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How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically
Exploring the Three Worlds of Mathematics
Av David Tall
Häftad, 2013
695 kr
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How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically describes the development of mathematical thinking from the young child to the sophisticated adult. Professor David Tall reveals the reasons why mathematical concepts that make sense in one context may become problematic in another. For example, a child's …
Perspectives on Activity Theory
Av Yrjo Engestrom, Yrjö Engeström m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
996 kr
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Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its unit of analysis, thus bridging the gulf …
Communities of Practice
Learning, Meaning, and Identity
Häftad, 1999
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
631 kr
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This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social …
Situated Learning
Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Häftad, 1991
4,3 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
467 kr
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In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining …
Acting in Anaesthesia
Ethnographic Encounters with Patients, Practitioners and Medical Technologies
Av Dawn Goodwin
Inbunden, 2009
1628 kr
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In recent years, evidence-based medicine (EBM), clinical governance and professional accountability have become increasingly significant in shaping the organisation and delivery of healthcare. However, these notions all build upon and exemplify the idea of human-centred, individual action. In this …
Human-Machine Reconfigurations
Plans and Situated Actions
Av Lucy Suchman
Häftad, 2006
670 kr
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This 2007 book considers how agencies are currently figured at the human-machine interface, and how they might be imaginatively and materially reconfigured. Contrary to the apparent enlivening of objects promised by the sciences of the artificial, the author proposes that the rhetorics and …
Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context
Av Alex Kozulin, Boris Gindis m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
680 kr
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This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications. Particular attention is paid to the Vygotskian idea of child development as a consequence rather than premise of learning experiences. Such a reversal allows for new …
Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context
Av Alex Kozulin, Boris Gindis m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
1313 kr
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This 2003 book comprehensively covers all major topics of Vygotskian educational theory and its classroom applications. Particular attention is paid to the Vygotskian idea of child development as a consequence rather than premise of learning experiences. Such a reversal allows for new …
The Computer as Medium
Av Peter Bogh Anderson, Berit Holmqvist m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
727 kr
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Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear on computers and discusses the communicative …
Sociocultural Psychology
Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing
Av Laura Martin, Katherine Nelson m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
665 kr
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These essays by leading theorists and researchers in sociocultural, cognitive, developmental and educational psychology honour the memory of Sylvia Scribner, whose work is recognized by each of the authors as seminal to their own thinking. The themes include the relationship between history and …
Games, Learning, and Society
Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age
Av Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
695 kr
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This volume is the first reader on video games and learning of its kind. Covering game design, game culture and games as twenty-first-century pedagogy, it demonstrates the depth and breadth of scholarship on games and learning to date. The chapters represent some of the most influential thinkers, …
From Teams to Knots
Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work
Häftad, 2010
585 kr
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Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland over a time span of more than 10 years, this book shows that teams are not a universal and ahistorical form of …
PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society
Häftad, 2014
586 kr
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PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers the first complete analysis of the PowerPoint presentation as a form of communication. Knoblauch charts the diffusion of PowerPoint and explores its significance as a …
Thinking as Communicating
Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing
Av Anna Sfard
Häftad, 2010
648 kr
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This book is an attempt to change our thinking about thinking. Anna Sfard undertakes this task convinced that many long-standing, seemingly irresolvable quandaries regarding human development originate in ambiguities of the existing discourses on thinking. Standing on the shoulders of Vygotsky and …
Talking Mathematics in School
Studies of Teaching and Learning
Av Magdalene Lampert, Merrie L. Blunk
Häftad, 2011
887 kr
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The teaching and learning of mathematics in K-12 classrooms is changing. New curricula and methods engage learners in working on real problems. An essential feature of this work involves teacher and students in 'talking mathematics'. How can students learn to do this kind of talking? What can they …
Making Work Visible
Ethnographically Grounded Case Studies of Work Practice
Av Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen
Häftad, 2011
585 kr
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In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological …
The Materiality of Learning
Technology and Knowledge in Educational Practice
Häftad, 2011
553 kr
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The field of educational research lacks a methodology for the study of learning that does not begin with humans, their aims, and their interests. The Materiality of Learning seeks to overcome this human-centered mentality by developing a novel spatial approach to the materiality of learning. …
Making Work Visible
Ethnographically Grounded Case Studies of Work Practice
Av Margaret H. Szymanski, Jack Whalen
Inbunden, 2011
1207 kr
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In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of social science researchers in technology design and in developing better ways of working. The Xerox legacy is a hybrid methodology that combines an ethnographic interest in direct observation in settings of interest with an ethnomethodological …
Games, Learning, and Society
Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age
Av Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1408 kr
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This volume is the first reader on video games and learning of its kind. Covering game design, game culture and games as twenty-first-century pedagogy, it demonstrates the depth and breadth of scholarship on games and learning to date. The chapters represent some of the most influential thinkers, …
PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society
Inbunden, 2012
1777 kr
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PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers the first complete analysis of the PowerPoint presentation as a form of communication. Knoblauch charts the diffusion of PowerPoint and explores its significance as a …
Computation and Human Experience
Av Philip E. Agre, Roy Pea m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2029 kr
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This book offers a critical reconstruction of the fundamental ideas and methods of artificial intelligence research. Through close attention to the metaphors of artificial intelligence and their consequences for the field's patterns of success and failure, it argues for a reorientation of the field …
Computation and Human Experience
Av Philip E. Agre, Roy Pea m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
687 kr
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This book offers a critical reconstruction of the fundamental ideas and methods of artificial intelligence research. Through close attention to the metaphors of artificial intelligence and their consequences for the field's patterns of success and failure, it argues for a reorientation of the field …
Street Mathematics and School Mathematics
Av Terezinha Nunes, David William Carraher m. fl.
Häftad, 1993
695 kr
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People who learn to solve problems 'on the job' often have to do it differently from people who learn in theory. Practical knowledge and theoretical knowledge is different in some ways but similar in other ways - or else one would end up with wrong solutions to the problems. Mathematics is also …
The Construction Zone
Working for Cognitive Change in School
Av Denis Newman, Peg Griffin m. fl.
Häftad, 1989
553 kr
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In its description of several years of painstaking classroom observations and carefully crafted experimental interventions, the 'construction zone' makes clear the cleavage lines between the everyday requirements of classroom teaching and the practice of experimental psychologists. The best …
Situated Learning
Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Inbunden, 1991
1,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
876 kr
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In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining …
The Computer as Medium
Av Peter Bxgh Andersen, Berit Holmqvist m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
2105 kr
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Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear on computers and discusses the communicative …
Perspectives on Activity Theory
Av Yrjö Engeström, Reijo Miettinen m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
2184 kr
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Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont'ev, and Luria. It takes the object-oriented, artifact-mediated collective activity system as its unit of analysis, thus bridging the gulf …
Situated Cognition
On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations
Inbunden, 1997
2089 kr
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This 1997 book examines recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not just in terms of high-level 'expertise,' but in the ability to find one's way around the world, to …
Situated Cognition
On Human Knowledge and Computer Representations
Av William J. Clancey, Roy Pea m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
731 kr
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This 1997 book examines recent changes in the design of intelligent machines. New computer models of vision and navigation in animals suggest a different way to build machines. Cognition is viewed not just in terms of high-level 'expertise,' but in the ability to find one's way around the world, to …
Mind and Social Practice
Selected Writings of Sylvia Scribner
Av Sylvia Scribner, Ethel Tobach m. fl.
Inbunden, 1997
2089 kr
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Sylvia Scribner's research and theory have been monumental in forming the emergent field of cultural psychology. Her studies of reasoning and thinking in their cultural and activity contexts added new concepts, methods, and findings to what many are now viewing as a distinctive branch of …