CLASSIC: Practical Thinking at Work (LCHC Newsletter, 1984)

Bridging the gap between lab and field, here are a range of early reports presented in newsletter format of core studies associated with the "practical thinking" perspective -- a precursor to everyday and distributed cognition... more»

BOOK: Navigating Numeracies: Home/School Numeracy Practices

This volume approaches numeracy as a social practice with ethnographic work on the meanings and uses of numeracy in schools and home and community contexts... more»

CLASSIC: Ecological Niche Picking: Ecological Invalidity as an Axiom of Experimental Cognitive Psychology

Although Cole, Hood and McDermott failed to get this article published in mainstream journals at the time, this paper was a clarion call for focusing on cognition as it occurs in everyday life and for questioning the generalizability of findings from mainstream laboratory experimental work on cognition... more»

BOOK: Talk and Social Theory: Ecologies of Speaking and Listening in Everyday Life

Everyday talk is strongly shaped by the broader and social and cultural processes of society... more»

STUDY: Vernacular science knowledge: its role in everyday life communication

Pragmatic criteria associated with social efficiency and local meaning govern how derivatives of scientific knowledge get embedded into everyday thinking and communication... more»

When we say that someone has common sense, that is not only supposed to mean that they use their eyes and ears, but that they keep them open, as it were, and use them meaningfully, intelligently, and in a way conducive to forming opinion and reflection, or at least attempt it, and that they are in a position to deal with everyday problems in an everyday manner with a degree of efficiency. (Geertz, 1983: 264)