Cognition in practice mind, mathematics, and culture in everyday life

In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world", such as that entailed in grocery shopping...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Lave, Jean (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [etc.] : Cambridge University Press 1997
Edición:1st., repr
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Acceso en línea:Sumario
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Sumario:In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world", such as that entailed in grocery shopping or dieting, is, like all thinking, shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally-endowed mind and its total context, a subtle interaction that shapes both the human subject and the world within which it acts
Notas:Primera ed. es de 1988
Descripción Física:XV, 214 p. : gráf. ; 24 cm
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 206-214)
ISBN:9780521350150
9780521357340