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Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing) (Volume 0)

paperback – July 29, 1988
by Lave, Jean
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ISBN-13: 9780521357340 ISBN-10: 0521357349
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Binding
paperback
Published
July 29, 1988
Weight
0.8 lbs
Dimensions
22.90×1.50×15.20 cm

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Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing) (Volume 0) by Lave, Jean. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780521357340.

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.