Context and Cognition: Ways of Learning and Knowing
By Unknown Author.
Description
The study of cognitive development in children has moved from a focus on the intellectual processes of the individual studied in relative isolation, as in the classic work of Jean Piaget, to a concern in the 1970s and 1980s with social cognition characterized by Vygotsky's views. In even more recent years, the trend toward an understanding of the situated nature of cognition has evolved even further and the extent to which thinking and knowing are inextricably linked to contextual constraints is at last being defined. Experts of international repute, the authors of this important boo...
ISBN(s)
0805813934, 9780805813937
