Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Series

39 primary works • 39 total works

This series addresses the situated nature of learning, remembering and understanding. It may appear obvious that human minds develop in social situations, and that they use the tools and representational media that culture provides to support, extend, and reorganize mental functioning. However, cognitive theories of knowledge representation and edu…

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

by Jean Lave

4.11 · 439 Ratings · 39 Reviews · published 1991 · 12 editions

In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave,…

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Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context

by Seth Chaiklin

4.25 · 4 Ratings · published 1993 · 9 editions

Understanding Practice brings together many differ…

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The Computer as Medium

by Peter Bxgh Andersen

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 1994 · 5 editions

Computers are developing into a powerful medium in…

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Sociocultural Studies of Mind

by James V. Wertsch

4.00 · 3 Ratings · published 1995 · 4 editions

Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the questi…

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Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing

by Laura Martin

3.67 · 3 Ratings · published 1995 · 5 editions

These essays by leading theorists and researchers …

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Computation and Human Experience

by Philip E. Agre

4.14 · 22 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 1997 · 5 editions

This book offers a critical reconstruction of the …

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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

by Etienne Wenger

4.06 · 354 Ratings · 30 Reviews · published 1998 · 15 editions

Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worr…

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Talking Mathematics in School: Studies of Teaching and Learning

by Magdalene Lampert

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 1998 · 8 editions

Talking Mathematics in School investigates the rel…

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Perspectives on Activity Theory

by Yrjö Engeström

3.88 · 26 Ratings · published 1999 · 8 editions

Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach t…

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Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education

by Gordon Wells

4.12 · 17 Ratings · published 1999 · 11 editions

For more than a quarter century, the polemics surr…

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Technology in Action

by Christian Heath

3.33 · 6 Ratings · published 1996 · 12 editions

Despite extraordinary advances in digital and comm…

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Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy

by Martin Packer

3.50 · 2 Ratings · published 2000 · 6 editions

Changing Classes tells the story of Willow Run, a …

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Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace

by K. Ann Renninger

3.38 · 8 Ratings · published 2002 · 10 editions

This study examines how learning and cognitive cha…

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Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context

by Alex Kozulin

3.68 · 22 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 14 editions

Innovative ideas in educational psychology, learni…

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Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning

by Sasha Barab

3.88 · 8 Ratings · published 2003 · 5 editions

This volume explores the theoretical, design, lear…

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Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

by Arnetha F. Ball

3.75 · 4 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2004 · 14 editions

Contributed by authors who write from various disc…

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Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context

by David Barton

4.00 · 12 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 11 editions

The concept of "communities of practice" (Lave and…

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Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

by Lucy A. Suchman

3.75 · 97 Ratings · 16 Reviews · published 2006 · 9 editions

This 2007 book considers how agencies are currentl…

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Psychotherapy in Everyday Life

by Ole Dreier

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2007 · 7 editions

Psychotherapy in Everyday Life shows how clients e…

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Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing

by Anna Sfard

4.50 · 10 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2008 · 12 editions

This book contributes to the current debate about …

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Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

by Pamela A. Moss

0.00 · published 2008 · 9 editions

Providing all students with a fair opportunity to …

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From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

by Yrjö Engeström

4.23 · 13 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 8 editions

Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and hum…

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Acting in Anaesthesia: Ethnographic Encounters with Patients, Practitioners and Medical Technologies

by Dawn Goodwin

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2007 · 7 editions

In recent years, evidence-based medicine (EBM), cl…

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The Materiality of Learning: Technology and Knowledge in Educational Practice

by Estrid Sørensen

4.00 · 5 Ratings · published 2009 · 11 editions

The field of educational research lacks a methodol…

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How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do: A Case for a Broad View of Learning

by Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl

4.33 · 3 Ratings · published 2010 · 4 editions

Studies of learning are too frequently conceptuali…

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Making Work Visible: Ethnographically Grounded Case Studies of Work Practice

by Margaret H. Szymanski

5.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2011 · 9 editions

In the 1970s, Xerox pioneered the involvement of s…

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Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age

by Constance Steinkuehler

3.67 · 24 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 14 editions

This volume is the first reader on videogames and …

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Constructing the Self in a Digital World

by Cynthia Carter Ching

2.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2012 · 9 editions

It has become popular in recent years to talk abou…

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Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas: Papua New Guinea Studies

by Geoffrey B. Saxe

0.00 · published 2012 · 11 editions

Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980…

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The Dynamics of Auction: Social Interaction and the Sale of Fine Art and Antiques

by Christian Heath

4.20 · 5 Ratings · published 2012 · 9 editions

Each year art and antiques worth many billions of …

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PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society

by Hubert Knoblauch

4.00 · 1 Ratings · published 2012 · 9 editions

PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic…

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Contested Learning in Welfare Work: A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process

by Peter H. Sawchuk

0.00 · published 2013 · 7 editions

Drawing on the field of cultural historical psycho…

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How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically: Exploring The Three Worlds Of Mathematics

by David Tall

4.00 · 11 Ratings · published 2013 · 8 editions

How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically describes…

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Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom

by Elizabeth de Freitas

4.00 · 2 Ratings · published 2014 · 6 editions

This book explores alternative ways to consider th…

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Constructing Dynamic Triangles Together: The Development of Mathematical Group Cognition

by Gerry Stahl

0.00 · published 2015 · 5 editions

Rational thinking as exemplified in mathematical c…

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Funds of Identity: Connecting Meaningful Learning Experiences in and Out of School

by Moisès Esteban-Guitart

3.50 · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 4 editions

Drawing on research conducted mostly in Catalonia …

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Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language

by Jürgen Streeck

5.00 · 1 Ratings · 5 editions

This book portrays one day in the communicative li…

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Inside Mathforum.org: Analysis of an Internet-Based Education Community

by Wesley Shumar

0.00 · 4 editions

The internet has dramatically transformed social s…

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Co-Operative Action

by Charles Goodwin

5.00 · 3 Ratings · 5 editions

Co-Operative Action proposes a new framework for t…

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Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Series

Shelve Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Shelve Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context

Shelve The Computer as Medium

Shelve Sociocultural Studies of Mind

Shelve Sociocultural Psychology: Theory and Practice of Doing and Knowing

Shelve Computation and Human Experience

Shelve Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity

Shelve Talking Mathematics in School: Studies of Teaching and Learning

Shelve Perspectives on Activity Theory

Shelve Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education

Shelve Technology in Action

Shelve Changing Classes: School Reform and the New Economy

Shelve Building Virtual Communities: Learning and Change in Cyberspace

Shelve Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context

Shelve Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning

Shelve Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

Shelve Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context

Shelve Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions

Shelve Psychotherapy in Everyday Life

Shelve Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing

Shelve Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn

Shelve From Teams to Knots: Activity-Theoretical Studies of Collaboration and Learning at Work

Shelve Acting in Anaesthesia: Ethnographic Encounters with Patients, Practitioners and Medical Technologies

Shelve The Materiality of Learning: Technology and Knowledge in Educational Practice

Shelve How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do: A Case for a Broad View of Learning

Shelve Making Work Visible: Ethnographically Grounded Case Studies of Work Practice

Shelve Games, Learning, and Society: Learning and Meaning in the Digital Age

Shelve Constructing the Self in a Digital World

Shelve Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas: Papua New Guinea Studies

Shelve The Dynamics of Auction: Social Interaction and the Sale of Fine Art and Antiques

Shelve PowerPoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society

Shelve Contested Learning in Welfare Work: A Study of Mind, Political Economy, and the Labour Process

Shelve How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically: Exploring The Three Worlds Of Mathematics

Shelve Mathematics and the Body: Material Entanglements in the Classroom

Shelve Constructing Dynamic Triangles Together: The Development of Mathematical Group Cognition

Shelve Funds of Identity: Connecting Meaningful Learning Experiences in and Out of School

Shelve Self-Making Man: A Day of Action, Life, and Language

Shelve Inside Mathforum.org: Analysis of an Internet-Based Education Community

Shelve Co-Operative Action