Distributed Cognitions Psychological and Educational Considerations [Paperback]

This book re-examines the 'distributed' social and cultural contextual factors that affect human cognition.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 text proposes that a clearer understanding would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals.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 text proposes that a clearer understanding would be achieved if it were conceptualized and studied as distributed among individuals.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.List of contributors; Series foreword; Editor's introduction; 1. A cultural-historical approach to distributed cognition Michael Cole and Yrj? Engestr?m; 2. Practices of distributed intelligence and designs for education Roy D. Pea; 3. Person-plus: a distributed view of thinking and learning D. N. Perkins; 4. No distribution without individuals' cognition: a dynamic interfactional view Gavriel Salomon; 5. Living knowledge: the social distribution ol“