Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context

Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

by Seth Chaiklin (Editor), Jean Lave (Editor)

Understanding Practice brings together 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 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.

414 pages, Paperback

First published June 25, 1993