Affordances revisited: Articulating a Merleau-Pontian view

International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 151-170

  Bonderup Dohn, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Affordance; Agency; Being in the world; Epistemology; Ontology; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 64549121955     PISSN: 15561607     EISSN: 15561615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11412-009-9062-z     Document Type: Review

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