The Univeristy of Connecticut

Program in Cognition and Instruction

Michael F. Young, Ph.D.

Next Offered Spring 2005

last updated 19 Feb 2004

Doctoral Seminar in Situated Cognition

EPSY 418

Readings:

Bereiter, C. (1991). Implications of connectionism for thinking about rules. Educational Researcher, 20 (3), 10-16.

Bransford, J. D., Goldman, S. R. and Vye, N. J. (1991). Making a difference in people's abilities to think: Reflections on a decade of work and some hopes for the future. In L. Okagaki and R. J. Sternberg (Eds.) Directors of Development. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Bredo, E. (1994). Reconstructing educational psychology: Situated cognition and Deweyian pragmatism. Educational Psychologist, 29(1), 23-35.

Brown, J.S., Collins, A, & Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning, Educational Researcher, Jan-Feb, 32-42.

Capra F. (1996). The web of life. New York: Anchor Books. [ISBN 0-384-47675-2]

Clancey, W. J., & Roschelle, J. (1991). Situated Cognition: How representations are created and given meaning, To appear in Educational Psychologist.

Clancey, W. J. (1997). Remembering controversies (Chapter 3). Situated Cognition: On Human Knowledge and Computer Representation. New York: Cambridge U. Press. (ISBN# 0-521-44871-9)

Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1990). Anchored instruction and its relationship to situated cognition. Educational Research. 19 (6), 2-10.

Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1993). Anchored instruction and situated cognition revisited. Educational Technology March Issue, 52-70.

Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1994). From visual word problems to learning communities: Changing conceptions of cognitive research. In K. McGilly (Ed.) Classroom lessons: Integrating cognitive theory and classroom proactice. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Cognitive Science (1993) 17 (1), Jan-March. Special Issue: Situated Action. Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Newman, S. E. (1989). Cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching the crafts of reading, writing, and mathematics. In L. B. Resnick (Ed.) Knowing, learning, and instruction: Essays in honor of Robert Glaser, Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Dent, C. (1990). An ecological approach to language development: An alternative functionalism. Developmental Psychobiology. 23(7) 670-703.

di Sessa, A. A. (1988). What will it mean to be "educated" in 2020? In R. S. Nickerson & P. P. Zodhiates (Eds.), Technology in education: Looking toward 2020. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Gibson, J. J. (1986). The ecological approach to visual perception. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Glaser, R. (1991). Expertise and assessment. In M.C. Wittrock & E.L.Baker (Eds.) Testing and Cognition, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, pp.17-30.

Greeno, J. G. (1998). The situativity of knowing, learning, and research. American Psychologist, 53(1), 5-26.

Greeno, J. G. (1997). On claims that answer the wrong question. Educational Research, 26(1), 5-17. See also Donmoyer, R. Introduction:This Issue: Refocusing on Learning (pp. 4, 34) and Anderson, J. R., Reder, L. M., & Simon, H. A. Rejounder: Situative versus cognitive perspectives: Form versus substance (.. 18-22) same issue.

Greeno, J. G. (1994). Gibson's affordances. Psychological Review, 101(2), 236-342.

Greeno, J. G. (1989). A perspective on thinking. American Psychologist, 44, 134-141.

Greeno, J. G. Mathematical and Scientific thinking in classrooms and other situations. (39-61).

Greeno, J. G, & the MSMTAPG (1998). The situativity of knowing, learning, and research. American Psychologist, 53(1), 5-16.

Griffin, M. M. (1995). You can't get there from here: Situated learning, transfer, and map skills. Contrmporary Educational Psychology, 20, 65-87.

Gruber, J., Lai-Chong, L., Mandl, H., & Renkl, A. (1996). Situated learning and transfer. In P. Reimann & H. Spada (Eds.) Learning in humans and machines: Toward an interdisciplinary learning science. Oxford: Pergamon.

Hirose, N. (2002). An ecological approach to embodiment and cognition. Cognitive Research Systems. 3, 289, 299.

House, E. R. (1991). Realism in research. Educational Researcher, 20 (6), 2-9.

Kirsh, D., & Maglio, P. (1994). On distinguishing epistemic from pragmatic action. Cognitive Science, 18, 513-549.

Kirshner, D., & Whitson, J. A. (1998). Obstacles to understanding cognition as situated. Educational Researcher, 27(8), 22-28.

Kugler, Shaw, Vicente, Kinsella-Shaw (1991). The role of attractors in the self-organization of intentional systems. In R. R. Hoffman and D. S. Palermo (Eds.) Cognition and the Symbolic Processes. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Metz, K. E. (1995). Reassessment of developmental constraints on children's science instruction. Review of Educational Research, 65 (2), 93-127.

Perfetto, G. A., Bransford, J.D. & Franks, J. J. (1983). Constraints on access in a problem solving context. Memory and Cognition, 11(1), 24-31.

Peterson, P. L. & Knapp, N. F. (1993). Inventing and reinventing ideas: Constructivist teaching and learning in mathematics. In ASCD 1993 Yearbook of Challenges and Achievements. ASCD Publisher.

Roschelle, J. & Clancey, W. J. (1992). Learning as social and neural. Educational Psychologist. 27(4), 435-453.

Roth, W-M. (1996). Knowledge diffusion in a grade 4-5 classroom during a unit on civil engineering: An analysis of a classroom community in terms of its changing resources and practices. Cognition and Instruction, 14(2), 179-220

Salomon, G., Perkins, D. N., & Globerson, T. (1991). Partners in cognition: Extending human intelligence with intelligent technologies. Educational Researcher, 20 (3), 2-9.

SCANS: U.S. Dept of Labor (1992). Executive Summary

Schoenfeld, A. H. & Herrmann, D. J. (1982). Problem perception and knowledge structure in expert and novice mathematical problem solvers. JEP: Learning Memory and Cognition, 8 (5), 484-494.

Schoenfeld, A. H. (1988). Problem solving in context(s). In R. I. Charles & E. A. Silver (Eds.), The teaching and assessing of mathematical problem solving. Reston, VA: The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc.

Scott, Douglass J. Online WWW Situated Learning Resources.

Shanon, B. (1990). Non-representationl frameworks for psychology: A typology. European J. of Cognitive Psychology, 2(1), 1-22.

Shaw, R. E., Kadar, E., Sim, M. & Repperger, D. W. (1992). The intentional spring: A strategy for modeling systems that learn to perform intentional acts. J. of Motor Behavior 24(1), 3-28.

Shaw, R. E., & Turvey, M. T. (1999). Ecological Foundations of Cognition: II. Degrees of freedom and conserved quantities in animal-environment system. J. of Consciousness Studies, 6(11-12), 111-123.

Shephard, R. N. (1984). Ecological constraints on internal representation: Resonant kinematics of perceiving, imagining, thinking, and dreaming. Psychological Reveiw, 91, 417-447.

Saljo and Wyndhamm (1993)

Vicente, K. J. (1999). Cognitive Work Analysis: Toward safe, productive, and healthy computer-based work. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Vicente, K. J. & Wang, J. H. (1998). An ecological theory of expertise effects in memory recall. Psychological Review, 105(1), 33-57.

Vye, N. J., Goldman, S. R., Voss, J. F., Hmelo, C., Williams, S., & CTGV. (1997). Complex mathematical problem solving by individuals and dyads. Cognition and Instruction, 15(4), 435-484.

Whitehead, A.N. (1929). The aims of education and other essays. New York: MacMillan.

Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 9(4), 625-636.

Young, M. & McNeese, M. (1995). A Situated Cognition Approach to Problem Solving. In P. Hancock, J. Flach, J. Caid, & K. Vicente (Eds.) Local Applications of the Ecological Approach to Human Machine Systems.(pp.359-391).Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Young, M. F. , Kulikowich, J. M., & Barab, S. A. (1997). The unit of analysis for situated assessment. Instructional Science, 25(2), 133-150.

Course Texts:

Clark, Andy. (1997). Being there: Putting brain, body, and world together again. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (ISBN# 0-262-53156-9)

Dewey, J. (1938,1963). Experience & Education, New York: Collier Macmillan. (ISBN# 0-02-013660-9)


Kirshner, D. & Whitson, J. A. (1997) Situated Cognition: Social, semiotic, and psychological perspectives. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum (ISBN# 0-8058-2038-8)

Lave, J. & Wenger (1990). Situated Learning: Legitimate Periferal Practice.New York: Cambridge U. Press. (ISBN# 0-521-42374-0)

Additional References of interest

Bruner, J. (1986). Actual Minds, Possible Worlds. Harvard U. Press.

Coulter, J. (1989). Mind in Action. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press. (pp.9-54)

Chaiklin, S. & Lave, J. (1993). Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context. Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press.

Clark, A. (1997). The dynamical challenge. Cognitive Science, 21(4), 461-481.

Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. NY: Harper and Row.


Determan, D. K. & Sternberg, R. J. (1993). Transfer on Trial: Intelligence, cognition, and instruction. Norwood, NJ: Ablex. ISBN# 0-89391-826-1

Edelman, G. M. (1992). Bright air, brilliant fire: on the matter of the mind. New York, NY: BasicBooks.

Gibson, E. J. (1969). Principles of perceptual learning and development. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.

Gibson, E. J. (1991). An odyssey in learning and perception. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Gibson, J. J. (1979). The ecological approach to visual perception. Boston: Houghton-Miflin.

Heidegger, M. (1927a/ 1962). Being and Time. New York: Harper and Row.

Heidegger, M. (1927b) The Basic Problem of Phenomenology. New York: Harper and Row.

Kelso, J. A. S. (1995). Dynamic Patterns: The self-organization of brain and behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 0-262-11200-0

Lakoff, G. (1987). Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What categories reveal about the mind. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press. (pp. xi - 11).

Lave, J. (1988). Cognition in practice: Mind, mathematics and culture in everyday life. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

McLellan, H. (1996). Situated Learning Perspectives. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Educational Technology Publications.

Menzies, T. (1996). Apprpriate response to the challenge of situared cognition for knowledge acquisition. Paper presented to KAW Conference 11 July 1996. http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~timm/pub/docs/papersonly.html.

Merleau-Ponty, M. (1962). Phenomenology of Perception. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Saxe, G. B. (1991). Culture and Cognitive Development: Studies in mathematical understaning. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Shanon, B. (1988). Semantic representation of meaning: A critique. Psychological Bulletin, 104(1), 70-83.

Shaw, R. E., Kadar, E., Sim, M., & Repperger, D. W. (1992). The intentional spring: A strategy for modeling systems that learn to perform intentional acts. J. of Motor Behavior, 24 (1), 3-28.

Shyu, H. (1997). Anchored instruction for Chinese students: Enhancing attitudes toward mathematics. Int'l J. of Instuctional Media, 24(1), 55-60.

Siegler, R. S. & Crowley, K. (1991). The microgenetic method. American Psychologist. 46 (6), 606-620.

Slezak, P. Situated cognition: Empirical issue, 'paradigm shift' or conceptual confusion? 806-811.

Sun, R. (2002). Duality of the Mind: a Bottom-up Approach Toward Cognition.Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Thelan, E. & Smith, L. (1994). A Dynamic Sytems Approach to the Development of Cognition and Action. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.

Tighe, T. J. & Tighe, L. S. (1978). A perceptual view of conceptual development. In R. D. Walk & H. L. Pick (Eds.) Perception and Experience, New York: Plenum Press.

Turvey, M. T., & Shaw, R. E. (1999). Ecological foundations of cognition: I. Symemetry and specificity of animal-environment systems. J. of Consciousness Studies, 6(11-12), 95-110.

Vygotsky, L. S. (1978). Internationalization of higher psychological functions. In M. Cole, V. John-Steiner, S. Scribner, & E. Souberman (Eds.), Mind in Society: The development of higher psychological processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Young, M. F. (1993). Instructional design for situated learning. Educational Technology Research and Development. 41 (1), 43-58.

Young, M. F. & McNeese, M. (1993). A situated cognition approach to problem solving with implications for computer-based learning and assessment. In G. Salvendy & M. J. Smith (Eds.) Advances in Human Factors/Ergonomics, 19B. Human-Computer Interaction: Software and Hardware Interfaces. New York: Elsevier Science Publishers.

Young, M., Van Haneghan, J., Barron, L., Williams, S., Vye, N., & Bransford, J. (1991). A problem-solving approach to mathematics instruction using an embedded data videodisc. In A. L. Costa (Ed.). Developing minds: Programs for Teaching Thinking, Revised Edition, Volume 2. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

Recommended Reading order

The weak contention regarding the importance of context

Bredo, E. (1994).

Brown, J.S., Collins, A, & Duguid, P. (1989).

Saljo and Wyndhamm (1993)

Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1990).

Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1993).

Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt. (1994).

Collins, A., Brown, J. S., & Newman, S. E. (1989).

Greeno, J. G. (1989).

Greeno, J. G. (1997).

Greeno, J. G. (1998).

Griffin, M. M. (1995).

Metz, K. E. (1995).

The strong eco-psych perspective

Cognitive Science (1993) 17 (1)

Greeno, J. G. (1994).

Gibson, J. J. (1986).

Kugler, Shaw, Vicente, Kinsella-Shaw (1991).

Shaw, R. E., Kadar, E., Sim, M. & Repperger, D. W. (1992). (concentrate on modeling strategy instead of math proofs)

Young, M. F. , Kulikowich, J. M., & Barab, S. A. (1997).

Young, M. & McNeese, M. (1995).

Dent, C. (1990).

The broader context of complex systems

Capra F. (1996).

Roschelle, J. & Clancey, W. J. (1992).

Clancey, W. J. (1997).

Shanon, B. (1990).

Shephard, R. N. (1984).

Vicente, K. J. & Wang, J. H. (1998).

Issues of Transfer

Whitehead, A.N. (1929).

Law, L. C.

Lave, J. & Wenger (1990).

Background Readings that provide support

SCANS: U.S. Dept of Labor (1992).

Dewey, J. (1938,1963).

Schoenfeld, A. H. (1988).

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