What's a situation in situated cognition? - A constructionist critique of authentic inquiry

ICLS 2006 - International Conference of the Learning Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 1015-1021

  Abrahamson, Dor ^a   Di Sessa, Andrea A ^a   Blikstein, Paulo ^b   Wilensky, Uri ^b   Uttal, David H ^c   Amaya, Meredith M ^c   Marulis, Loren M ^c   Collins, Allan M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESIGN RESEARCH; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; MODEL-BASED DESIGN; SITUATED COGNITION; SUBJECT MATTERS;

STUDENTS; TEACHING;

DESIGN;

EID: 57649150683     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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