Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context

Seth Chaiklin, Jean Lave

Cambridge University Press, May 31, 1996 - Education - 414 pages

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.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in doing; Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context, Seth Chaiklin
• Editors: Seth Chaiklin, Jean Lave
• Edition: illustrated, reprint, revised
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1996
• ISBN: 0521558514, 9780521558518
• Length: 414 pages
• Subjects: Education / Educational Psychology; Education / Learning Styles; Psychology / General; Psychology / Personality; Psychology / Social Psychology; Social Science / Sociology / General