Cognition in practice : mind, mathematics, and culture in everyday life / Jean Lave.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lave, Jean.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition.

Psychology, Applied.

Physical Description:

xv, 214 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 206-214.

ISBN:

0521350158

0521357349

OCLC:

16645338