Situated Cognition
Subtitle: Social, Semiotic, and Psychological Perspectives
Contributors: David Kirshner (Editor); James A. Whitson (Editor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum; L. Erlbaum
Published: May 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780805820379
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Educational Psychology; Learning, Psychology of; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Education / Educational Psychology; Cognition and culture; Social Psychology; Cognition; Cognitive learning theory
Description: This volume contributes to discourse about repositioning situated cognition theory within the broader supporting disciplines and to resolving the problematics addressed within the book. There is a cumulative vision to this work - its theme that the notion of the individual in situated cognition theory needs to be fundamentally reformulated. No theoretical reconfiguration of the social world or social practices can overcome an individual cast in the dualist tradition.

This reformulation probes the physiological, psychoanalytic, and semiotic constitution of persons. Chapter authors cover a wide range of topics related to the central themes of the book.