From Teams to Knots

Yrjö Engeström

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in ... Lees meer

The Computer as Medium

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text, and sound, and the use of computers for communication and informatio... Lees meer

Thinking as Communicating

Anna Sfard

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• This book contributes to the current debate about how to think and talk about human thinking so as to resolve or bypass such time-honored quandaries a... Lees meer

Communities of Practice

Etienne Wenger

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about... Lees meer

Street Mathematics and School Mathematics

Terezinha Nunes, David William Carraher, Analucia Dias Schliemann

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• People who learn to solve problems 'on the job' often use different methods from people who learn in theory. Using a case study of Brazilian street ch... Lees meer

The Materiality of Learning

Estrid Sørensen

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• The field of educational research lacks a methodology for the study of learning that does not begin with humans, their aims, and their interests. The ... Lees meer

Self-Making Man

Jürgen Streeck

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• This book portrays one day in the communicative life of the owner of an auto repair-shop in Texas. He walks, looks, points, shows and explains engines... Lees meer

Perspectives on Activity Theory

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school of thought, intitiated... Lees meer

Acting in Anaesthesia

Dawn Goodwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• In recent years, evidence-based medicine (EBM), clinical governance and professional accountability have become increasingly significant in shaping th... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Auction

Christian Heath

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Each year art and antiques worth many billions of pounds are sold at auction. These auctions consist of numerous, intense episodes of social interacti... Lees meer

The Materiality of Learning

Estrid Sørensen

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• The field of educational research lacks a methodology for the study of learning that does not begin with humans, their aims, and their interests. The ... Lees meer

Constructing the Self in a Digital World

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• It has become popular in recent years to talk about "identity" as an aspect of engagement with technology - in virtual environments, in games, in soci... Lees meer

Powerpoint, Communication, and the Knowledge Society

Hubert Knoblauch

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• PowerPoint has become an integral part of academic and professional life across the globe. In this book, Hubert Knoblauch offers the first complete an... Lees meer

Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• The authors in this collection use Vygotsky's cultural-historical theory of human development to frame their analyses of schooling, with particular em... Lees meer

Sociocultural Studies of Mind

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Sociocultural Studies of Mind addresses the question of how mental functioning is related to the cultural, historical, and institutional settings in w... Lees meer

Psychotherapy in Everyday Life

Ole Dreier

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Psychotherapy in Everyday Life shows how clients employ therapy in their daily lives. The varied and extensive efforts involved in this are systematic... Lees meer

How Students Come to Be, Know, and Do

Leslie Rupert Herrenkohl, Véronique Mertl

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Studies of learning are too frequently conceptualized only in terms of knowledge development. Yet it is vital to pay close attention to the social and... Lees meer

Beyond Communities of Practice

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• The concept of "communities of practice" (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become influential in education, management, and social sciences in r... Lees meer

Co-Operative Action

Charles Goodwin

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Co-Operative Action proposes a new framework for the study of how human beings create action and shared knowledge in concert with others by re-using t... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Auction

Christian Heath

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Each year art and antiques worth many billions of pounds are sold at auction. These auctions consist of numerous, intense episodes of social interacti... Lees meer

Sociocultural Psychology

• Paperback | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• These essays by leading theorists and researchers in sociocultural, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology honor the memory of Sylvia Sc... Lees meer

Mind and Social Practice

Sylvia Scribner

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Sylvia Scribner's contributions to the emergent field of cultural psychology have been monumental. Her studies of reasoning and thinking within contex... Lees meer

Understanding Practice

• Paperback | Engels | 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 t... Lees meer

Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning

• Hardcover | Engels | Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp
• Contributed by authors who write from various disciplinary perspectives, the essays in this book clarify the learning theories of Mikhail Bakhtin and ... Lees meer