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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"situated cognition"”.
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Situated Cognition, Dynamicism, and Explanation in Cognitive Science
… two decades suggests that we should approach cognition with as much consideration to the environment as to the inner workings of the mind. Our cognition is often shaped by the constraints the environment places on us, not just by the "inputs" we receive from it. I argue also that there is a …
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Graduate Nurse Perceptions Of Effectiveness Of Prelicensure Education On Medication Administration
… preparing them to administer medications safely. Situated cognition provided organization for the study design and analysis. Data were obtained from a cohort of nursing graduates from a community college in south central Michigan using a two-step online and paper survey method. Respondents …
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Development of a Framework for Teaching L2 English as a Situated Practice in Malawi
… English as second language (L2) in Malawi. Using situated cognition theoretical construct as a basis, a framework for teaching L2 English as a situated practice was created. The development process was guided by views and practices of English methodology faculty members in Malawi's five secondary …
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The Effect of Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (Tapps) on the Troubleshooting Ability of University-Level Aviation Technician Students
… to determine the influence and implication of situated cognition and metacognition in teaching technical subjects. The Thinking Aloud Pair Problem Solving (TAPPS) technique was used in this study to implement cooperative learning and facilitate participants' awareness of their own inert thought …
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BREAKING BREAD, SHAPING UNDERSTANDING: THE ECO-FOOD COMMUNITY AS COGNITIVE SYSTEM
… insights from Conversation Analysis and Embodied Cognition Theory to examine the discursive practices of a group of interactants who operate in what I describe as a group cognitive system. While studies on embodied cognition have been done on both individuals and groups involved in various …
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Intentionality, Information and Consciousness: A Naturalistic Perspective
… Next, I explore what we can distill from work in Situated Cognition Research (understood as an extension of my interpretation of Naturalism) which will be useful in truly appreciating the Naturalist’s theoretical starting point, our conceptual foundation for work in the philosophy of mind. The …
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Hallucination machine : a body centric model of space perception
… into psychology through concepts of embodiment, situated cognition, and enaction. The Hallucination Machine illustrates the inner-spatial relations between different senses and movements, collected through sensory and inertial recording devices of the machine which experiences space situated by …
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Felt_space infrastructure: Hyper vigilant spatiality to valence the visceral dimension
… study is descriptive and develops a typology of situated cognition to extend the ‘granularity’ of perceptual sensitisation (i.e. a fine-grained means of perceiving space). The second project is relational and questions how mapping can coordinate perceptual, cognitive and associative attention, as …
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Dispositions in Practice: An Autoethnographic Study of Competence in Mathematics
… dispositions, and identities. Grounded in situated cognition and affordance theory, I explore a classroom environment where how students learn became important for more than just the construction of competence but became a central marker of competence in itself. Through this inquiry, I came …
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Trainees' perceptions of personal learning experiences and training program characteristics that helped them to learn : an exploratory study
… theories (andragogy, proficiency theory, and situated cognition) were examined to determine what formal and informal learning experiences of the respondents, were reflected or contradicted, by these theories.It was determined that interviews with employees to ascertain their perceptions might …
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Enculturational practices in the teaching of proof in mathematics
… many others in the social constructivism or the situated cognition camps, seek some sort of integration or balancing of these priorities in pedagogical theorizing. Kirshner (2002, 2004, 2008) argued that instead of either selecting one theory or balancing/coordinating the two theories, we should …
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An exploration of mechanical engineering students' perceptions of the influence of their work placement experiences on their employability
… behavioral factors. It is further informed by situated cognition, a sociocultural theory that focuses on learning through participation. The study collected qualitative data from a sample of 34 mechanical engineering students from a South African university of technology who were undergoing a …
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Biomimetic Agent-Based Modeling in Musical Interface Design: Ecological Dynamics, Care, and Constraint in a Physarum-Inspired Musical Instrument
… material, and political dimensions), and situated cognition to derive four testable design principles: three-dimensional care, legible non-determinism, visible biological behavior (anthropomorphization), and temporal depth. Legible non-determinism names the criterion at the center of this …
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The performative experiment : a polylogue to practice the malleability of an aesthetic and spatial sense of self
… contentions are picking up on recent waves in situated and embodied cognition and posthuman discourse, that have each reclaimed the body, physical, digital and virtual environments, and the nonhuman respectively as extended sites of perception and cognition. Posthumanism here, in the terms of …
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Curriculum Design in New Zealand Social Studies: Learning from the Past
… and with reference to the role of language in cognition and to cognitive load theory. This analysis revealed that the interactions between design, individual cognition and situated cognition are critical to sense‐making about policy. A set of design criteria was generated from this analysis …
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Speaking of Right and Wrong: Black Girls and Moral Development
<p>Our current approaches to moral development were generalized from the experiences of white males and females. This study draws upon existing theory in order to consider its relevance to Black girls' everyday lives. The study draws upon the moral reasoning gathered from ethnographic dilemma …
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Theory Meets Practice in Teacher Education: A Case Study of a Computer-Mediated Community of Learners
This research investigated the uses of computer-mediated communication in providing an online field experience in an educational psychology course for pre-service teachers at a large research university in the southeastern United States. Twenty-seven pre-service teachers in one section of a …
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Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies
… cognitive processes that are extended/situated in objects and arrangements of objects that constitute particular material spaces and places (home, workplace). As such, I argue that when either intentional or unintentional harms are committed against individuals who are cognitively …
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Eine Metaanalyse zur Effektivität multimedialen Lernens am Beispiel der Anchored Instrucion
… eine Forschungsgruppe etabliert hatten (Cognition and Technology <br>Group at Vanderbilt - CTGV). Die vorliegende Arbeit zeichnet den <br>wissenschaftlichen Entwicklungsgang dieses Instructionsansatz nach und <br>belegt ihn international an empirischen Arbeiten. Die Effektivität der …
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