Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations,9780521574235

Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations

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Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9780521574235
ISBN10: 0521574234
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-12-28
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely 'inside' a person's head, with relative disregard for the social, physical, and artifactual surroundings in which cognition takes place. This book is a bold attempt to re-examine the nature of cognitions and to propose that a clearer understanding of human cognition would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals, that knowledge is socially constructed through collaborative efforts toward shared objectives within cultural surroundings and that information is processed between individuals and the tools and artifacts provided by culture. The authors use illustrations from daily life and educational activities and suggest implications for education.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
vii
Series foreword ix
Editor's introduction xi
A cultural-historical approach to distributed cognition
1(46)
Michael Cole
Yrjo Engestrom
Practices of distributed intelligence and designs for education
47(41)
Roy D. Pea
Person-plus: a distributed view of thinking and learning
88(23)
D. N. Perkins
No distribution without individuals' cognition: a dynamic interactional view
111(28)
Gavriel Salomon
Living knowledge: the social distribution of cultural resources for thinking
139(25)
Luis C. Moll
Javier Tapia
Kathryn F. Whitmore
Finding cognition in the classroom: an expanded view of human intelligence
164(24)
Thomas Hatch
Howard Gardner
Distributed expertise in the classroom
188(41)
Ann L. Brown
Doris Ash
Martha Rutherford
Kathryn Nakagawa
Ann Gordon
Joseph C. Campione
On the distribution of cognition: some reflections
229(34)
Raymond S. Nickerson
Index 263

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