Discourse, Tools and Reasoning

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition

   1. Discourse, Tools, and Reasoning: Essays on Situated Cognition

      • Lauren B. Resnick, Clotilde Pontecorvo, Roger Säljö

      Pages 1-20

3. Distributed Cognition: Discourse and Activity in Complex Work Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Constructing Meaning from Space, Gesture, and Speech

      • Edwin Hutchins, Leysia Palen

      Pages 23-40

   3. Centers of Coordination: A Case and Some Themes

      • Lucy Suchman

      Pages 41-62

   4. Animated Texts: Selective Renditions of News Stories

      • Christian Heath, Gillian Nicholls

      Pages 63-86

   5. To Resolve a Technical Problem Through Conversation

      • Alain Trognon, Corinne Grusenmeyer

      Pages 87-110

   6. The Blackness of Black: Color Categories as Situated Practice

      • Charles Goodwin

      Pages 111-140

4. Negotiating Identities: The Construction of Sociocognitive Communities

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141

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   2. Reasonable Uncertainties: Parents’ Talk About Caring for Children with Chronic Renal Failure

      • David Middleton

      Pages 143-168

   3. Syncretic Literacy in a Samoan American Family

      • Alessandro Duranti, Elinor Ochs

      Pages 169-202

   4. Other Voices, Other Minds: The Use of Reported Speech in Group Therapy Talk

      • Alessandra Fasulo

      Pages 203-223

   5. Situational Effects in Computer-Based Problem Solving

      • Paul Light, Karen Littleton

      Pages 224-239

5. Learning in Practice: How People and Tools Shape One Another

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241

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   2. Discourse and Development: Notes from the Field

      • Joseph Glick

      Pages 243-264

   3. Interactional Perspectives on the Use of the Computer and on the Technological Development of a New Tool: The Case of Word Processing

      • Michèle Grossen, Luc-Olivier Pochon

      Pages 265-287

   4. What Organizes Our Problem-Solving Activities?

      • Terezinha Nunes

      Pages 288-311

   5. Understanding Symbols with Intermediate Abstractions: An Analysis of the Collaborative Construction of Mathematical Meaning

      • Baruch B. Schwarz

      Pages 312-335

   6. Strategy-Specific Information Access in Knowledge Acquisition from Hypertext

      • Wolfgang Schnotz

      Pages 336-358

6. Accountable Talk: Learning to Reason

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 359-359

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Not long ago, projections of how office technologies would revolutionize the production of documents in a high-tech future carriedmany promises. The paper­ less office and the seamless and problem-free sharing of texts and other work materials among co-workers werejust around the corner, we were told. To anyone who has been involved in putting together a volume of the present kind, such forecasts will be met with considerable skepticism, if not outright distrust. The diskette, the email, the fax, the net, and all the other forms of communication that are now around are powerful assets, but they do not in any way reduce the flow of paper or the complexity of coordinating activities involved in producing an artifact such as a book. Instead, the reverse seems to be true. Obviously, the use of such tools requires considerable skill at the center of coordination, to borrow an expression from a chapter in this volume. As editors, we have been fortunate to have Ms. Lotta Strand, Linkoping University, at the center of the distributed activity that producing this volume has required over the last few years. With her considerable skill and patience, Ms. Strand and her work provide a powerful illustration of the main thrust of most of the chapters in this volume: Practice is a coordination of thinking and action, and many things had to be kept in mind during the production of this volume.

• Action
• Cognition
• artificial intelligence
• educational technology
• intelligence
• interactive discourse
• learning
• learning technology
• situated cognition

• Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA

  Lauren B. Resnick, Barbara Burge

• Department of Communication Studies, Linköping University, Sweden

  Roger Säljö

• Dipartimento di Psicologia dei Processi di Sviluppo e Socializzazione, Universitá degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy

  Clotilde Pontecorvo

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