Situated cognition : social, semiotic, and psychological perspectives / edited by David Kirshner, James A. Whitson

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

The culture of acquisistion and the practice of understanding / Jean Lave -- Cognition, context, and learning : a social semiotic perspective / Jay L. Lemke -- Redefining the subject in situated cognition theory / Valerie Walkerdine -- Living math : Lave and Walkerdine on the meaning of everyday arithmetic / Philip E. Agre -- The situated development of logic in infancy : a case study / David I. Kirshner -- Cognition as a semiosic process : from situated mediation to critical reflective transcendence / James A. Whitson -- Mathematizing and symbolizing : the emergence of chains of signification in one first-grade classroom / Paul Cobb [and others] -- Thinking, learning, and reading : the situated sociocultural mind / James Paul Gee -- Explaining learning : the research trajectory oF situated cognition and the implications of connectionism / John St. Julien -- Situated cognition and how to overcome it / Carl Bereiter -- Situated cognition in search of an agenda / Yrjö Engeström and Michael Cole

"This volume contributes to discourse about repositioning situated cognition theory within the broader supporting disciplines and to resolving the problematics addressed within the book. There is a cumulative vision to this work - its theme that the notion of the individual in situated cognition theory needs to be fundamentally reformulated. No theoretical reconfiguration of the social world or social practices can overcome an individual cast in the dualist tradition. This reformulation probes the physiological, psychoanalytic, and semiotic constitution of persons. Chapter authors cover a wide range of topics related to the central themes of the book."--Jacket