Sentence examples for situated cognition from inspiring English sources
Because of the linkage to meaningful practice situations, situated cognition is more powerful than decontextualised knowledge, which, like the theoretical knowledge students acquire during the preclinical phase, is often represented in abstract structures and therefore difficult to translate to concrete situations (Orey and Nelson 1994).
As a paradigm within situated cognition, embodied cognitive science can be distinguished from both the study of embedded cognition and the thesis of extended cognition.
Decisions about STeLLA program form are driven by the situated cognition of teacher learning and the cognitive apprenticeship model of instruction (foundational design principle 4).
The principles of active student participation, situated cognition to solve problems, authenticity, and cognitive rehearsal were used to develop the ICDSF.
Furthermore, they believe that the programme's content should "[s]hift from a focus on covering decontextualized knowledge to an emphasis on teaching for sense of salience, situated cognition, and action in particular situations" (pp. 82).
Theory of teacher learning: A situated cognition theory of teacher learning and a cognitive apprenticeship instructional theory guides the design and sequencing of teacher learning experiences.
This natural desire to situate cognition with real contexts is reflected in the mind-body connections of mathematical concepts such as embodied numerosity (Moeller et al., 2012) and the use of temporal and spatial metaphors (e.g., "the number is approaching zero").
It is this focus on dynamic, worldly interplay that provides one link from embodied to embedded cognition within situated cognitive science.
Varela, Thompson and Rosch argued that the standard division between pre-given, external features of the world and internal symbolic representations should be dropped, as it is unable to accommodate the feedback from embodied actions to cognition via the actions of a situated cognitive agent.
Despite the legacies of these different histories, as we noted in Section 1, embodied cognition and extended cognition have recently come to be viewed as peas in the same pod, as variants of situated cognitive science.
