Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context(Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp)

Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp

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 ran