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Title Understanding practice : perspectives on activity and context / edited by Seth Chaiklin and Jean Lave
Published Cambridge ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1993

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 W'PONDS  370.1523 Cha/Upp  AVAILABLE
 MELB  370.1523 Cha/Upp  AVAILABLE
Description x, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Learning in doing
Learning in doing.
Contents The practice of learning / Jean Lave -- Learning to navigate / Edwin Hutchins -- Developmental studies of work as a testbench of activity theory : the case of primary care medical practice / Yrjö Engeström -- Re-searching psychotherapeutic practice / Ole Dreier -- Thinking and acting with iron / Charles Keller and Janet Dixon Keller -- Artificial intelligence as craftwork / Lucy A. Suchman and Randall H. Trigg -- Behavior setting analysis of situated learning : the case of newcomers / Urs Fuhrer -- Examinations reexamined : certification of students or certification of knowledge? / Steinar Kvale -- Beneath the skin and between the ears : a case study in the politics of representation / Hugh Mehan -- The acquisition of a child by a learning disability / R.P. McDermott -- Context and scaffolding in developmental studies of mother-child problem-solving dyads / Harold G. Levine -- Solving everyday problems in the formal setting : an empirical study of the school as context for thought / Roger Säljö and Jan Wyndhamn -- Teacher's directives : the social construction of "literal meanings" and "real worlds" in classroom discourse / Norris Minick -- Understanding the social scientific practice of Understanding practice / Seth Chaiklin
Analysis Learning
Learning
Notes First paperback edition 1996
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Subject Learning -- Social aspects.
Learning, Psychology of.
Learning.
Occupational training.
Work.
Author Chaiklin, Seth.
Lave, Jean.
LC no. 92010606
ISBN 0521392632
0521558514