Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Revised ed., 8/21/2008
EAN 9780521558518, ISBN10: 0521558514
Paperback, 428 pages, 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English
Understanding Practice brings together the 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 by 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.
Series foreword
List of contributors
Part I. Introduction
1. The practice of learning Jean Lave
Part II. Learning Craftwork
2. Learning to navigate Edwin Hutchins
3. Developmental studies of work as a testbench of activity theory
the case of primary care medical practice Yrjö Engeström
4. Re-searching psychotherapeutic practice Ole Dreier
5. Thinking and acting with iron Charles Keller and Janet Dixon Keller
6. Artificial intelligence as craftwork Lucy A. Suchman and Randall H. Trigg
7. Behavior setting analysis of situated learning
the case of newcomers Urs Fuhrer
Part III. Learning as Social Production
8. Examinations reexamined
certification of students or certification of knowledge? Steinar Kvale
9. Beneath the skin and between the ears
a case study in the politics of representation Hugh Mehan
10. The acquisition of a child by a learning disability R. P. McDermott
11. Context and scaffolding in developmental studies of mother-child problem-solving dyads Harold G. Levine
12. Solving everyday problems in the formal setting
an empirical study of the school as context for thought Roger Säljö and Jan Wynham
13. Teacher's directives
the social construction of 'literal meanings' and 'real worlds' in classroom discourse Norris Minick
Part IV. Conclusion
14. Understanding the social scientific practice of Understanding practice Seth Chaiklin
Index.