Context and Cognition Ways of Learning and Knowing

Light, Paul und George Butterworth:

ISBN 10: 0745010601 / ISBN 13: 9780745010601

Published by Prentice-Hall, 1992

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250 Seiten Innen sauberer, guter Zustand. Softcover, Broschur mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. Leichte Gebrauchspuren. - Inside clean, good condition. Softcover, pamphlet with the usual library markings, stamps and inscriptions, inside and out, see pictures. Slight traces of use. - Developing Body & Mind Series. B11-02-01I|A59 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 296.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Context and Cognition Ways of Learning and Knowing
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745010601
• ISBN 13: 9780745010601
• Binding: 22,5 x 15 cm
• Edition: 1. Auflage.
• Condition: Gut
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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Synopsis

The study of cognitive development in children has moved from a focus on the intellectual processes of the individual studied in relative isolation, as in the work of Jean Piaget, to a concern in the 1970s and early 1980s with social cognition, characterized by L.S. Vygotsky's views. In more recent years an understanding of the situated nature of cognition has evolved, and the extent to which thinking and knowing are inextricably linked to contextual constraints is being defined. This book examines recent literature on situated cognition in children. The authors explain contextual sensitivity in relation to ecological theories of cognition, and contrast intuitive reasoning in mathematical and other scientific domains with the failure of such reasoning in formal school context. The authors are concerned with the question of generalizability and transfer of knowledge from one situation to another, and point to practical implications for understanding how intellectual competence can be made to generalize between "formal" and "informal" situations.