Institute for Learning and Development

Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning

Many teaching practices implicitly assume that conceptual knowledge can be abstracted from the situations in which it is learned and used. This article argues that this assumpti...

Organizational Learning and Communities-of-Practice: Toward a Unified View of Working, Learning, and Innovation

Recent ethnographic studies of workplace practices indicate that the ways people actually work usually differ fundamentally from the ways organizations describe that work in man...

Education and thinking: The role of knowledge.

Abstract : Psychological science is obtaining increased understanding of the nature of human thinking and problem solving. This report addresses the question of how this underst...

The cognitive skill of teaching.