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Lave, Jean – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1985
Introduces a collection of papers presented at a symposium on the situationally-specific character of problem-solving practices. Reports that findings provoke speculation about relations among social contexts, knowledge and activity, and relations between school-learned problem-solving techniques and those used in other settings. (KH)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Style, Computation, Context Effect