Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations

Title: Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations
Abstract/Description: Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely "inside" a person, irrelevant to the social, physical, and artifactual context in which cognition takes place. This book reexamines the nature of cognition and proposes that a clearer understanding of human cognition would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals; knowledge is socially constructed through collaborative efforts toward shared objectives within cultural surroundings, and that information is processed among individuals and the tools and artifacts provided by culture. The contributors to this thought-provoking text enhance their arguments by offering examples from daily life and educational activities. Researchers in a number of social and scientific fields will welcome this book.
Author/creator: Salomon, Gavriel
Date: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Textbook
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en No
Peer reviewed: en No
ISBN: 978-0-521-41406-7
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (Cambridge University Press)
Citation: Salomon, G. (1993). Distributed Cognitions: Psychological and Educational Considerations. Cambridge University Press.
Cited in: Equitable Learning

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