?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+tutorial+on+situated+learning.&rft.creator=Clancey%2C+William+J.&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Social+Psychology&rft.description=The+theory+of+situated+learning+claims+that+every+idea+and+human+action+is+a+generalization%2C+adapted+to+the+ongoing+environment%2C+because+what+people+see+and+what+they+do+arise+together.+From+this+perspective%2C+thinking+is+a+physical+skill.+As+we+create+names+for+things%2C+shuffle+around+sentences+in+a+paragraph%2C+and+interpret+what+our+statements+mean%2C+every+step+is+controlled+not+by+reinstantiated+grammars+and+previously+constructed+plans%2C+but+adaptively+recoordinated+from+previous+ways+of+seeing%2C+talking%2C+and+moving.+Situated+learning+is+the+study+of+how+human+knowledge+develops+in+the+course+of+activity%2C+and+especially+how+people+create+and+interpret+descriptions+(representations)+of+what+they+are+doing.+This+introduction+provides+a+historical+perspective+of+situated+learning%2C+including+the+work+of+Dewey%2C+Bartlett%2C+Vygotsky%2C+and+Ryle.+I+provide+examples+of+how+situated+learning+is+being+applied+today+in+business+process+redesign.&rft.contributor=Self%2C+J.&rft.date=1995&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F323%2F1%2F139.htm&rft.identifier=++Clancey%2C+William+J.++(1995)+A+tutorial+on+situated+learning.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F323%2F