Cognition In Practice - POD TITLE

Klappentext In this innovative study! Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing! she shows how mathematics in the "real world!" such as that entailed in grocery shopping or dieting! is! like all thinking! shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally-endowed mind and its total context! a subtle interaction that shapes both the human subject and the world within which it acts. Zusammenfassung In this study! Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity! - arithmetic problem-solving - out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. The study is focused on mundane daily activities! such as grocery shopping! dieting! and so on. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; Preface; 1. Introduction: psychology and anthropology I; Part I. Theory in Practice: 2. Missionaries and cannibals (indoors); 3. Life after school; 4. Psychology and anthropology II; Part II. Practice in Theory: 5. Inside the supermarket (outdoors) and from the veranda; 6. Out of trees of knowledge into fields for activity; 7. Through the supermarket; 8. Outdoors: a social anthropology of cognition in practice; Notes; References.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Lave, Jean (University of California Lave
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.07.1988
• EAN: 9780521357340
• ISBN: 978-0-521-35734-0
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Learning in Doing
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works