Distributed Cognitions Psychological and Educational Considerations

Name: Distributed Cognitions Psychological and Educational Considerations
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ISBN: 9780521574235

ISBN-10: 0521574234

ISBN-13: 9780521574235

Edition: 1997

Authors: Gavriel Salomon, John Seely Brown, Christian Heath, Roy Pea

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Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely inside a persons 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…

Book details

List price: $45.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/28/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 300
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

John Seely Brown is Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp and former director of its Palo AltoResearch Center (PARC), and co-author of The Social Life of Information.



List of contributors


Series foreword


Editor's introduction



A cultural-historical approach to distributed cognition




Practices of distributed intelligence and designs for education




Person-plus: a distributed view of thinking and learning




No distribution without individuals' cognition: a dynamic interfactional view




Living knowledge: the social distribution of cultural resources for thinking




Finding cognition in the classroom: an expanded view of human intelligence




Distributed expertise in the classroom




On the distribution of cognition: some reflections



Index