Concept

Situated cognition

Overview

theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social, cultural and physical contexts

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Situated cognition

• Gilbert Ryle

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Educational psychology
• Problem solving
• Language
• Learning
• Visual perception
• Perception
• Externalism
• Memory
• Information processing (psychology)
• Embodied cognition
• Wave–particle duality
• Experimental psychology
• Martin Heidegger
• Symbol
• Critical theory
• Discourse
• Mental representation
• Anthropology
• Sociolinguistics
• Affordance
• Jean Lave
• Étienne Wenger
• Situated learning

Place in the tradition

Part of Outline of philosophy.

Narrower topics:

• Jean Lave
• Instructional design
• Situated learning
• Étienne Wenger
• Bakhtin
• Cognitive apprenticeship
• Critical discourse analysis
• The Long Tail (book)

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