Context and Cognition: Ways of Learning and Knowing

Light, P. & Butterworth, G. (eds)

ISBN 10: 0745010601 / ISBN 13: 9780745010601

Verlag: Harvester-Wheatsheaf, 1996

Beschreibung

This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780745010601.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9048330

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Context and Cognition: Ways of Learning and Knowing
• Verlag: Harvester-Wheatsheaf
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0745010601
• ISBN-13: 9780745010601
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Psychology & Psychiatry

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Inhaltsangabe

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.