Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
- J. Brown, A. Collins, P. Duguid
- Business
- 1 January 1989
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 assumption inevitably limits…
The Cognitive Structure of Emotions
- A. Ortony, G. Clore, A. Collins
- Psychology
- 1 July 1988
The boundaries of the theory Emotion words and cross-cultural issues Emotion experiences and unconscious emotions Coping and the function of emotions Computational tractability.
A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing
- A. Collins, E. Loftus
- Computer Science
- 1 November 1975
The present paper shows how the extended theory can account for results of several production experiments by Loftus, Juola and Atkinson's multiple-category experiment, Conrad's sentence-verification experiments, and several categorization experiments on the effect of semantic relatedness and typicality by Holyoak and Glass, Rips, Shoben, and Smith, and Rosch.
COGNITIVE APPRENTICESHIP: MAKING THINKING VISIBLE
- A. Collins, J. Brown, A. Holum
- Education
- 1991
IN ANCIENT times, teaching and learning were accomplished through apprenticeship: We taught our children how to speak, grow crops, craft cabinets, or tailor clothes by showing them how and by helping…
Cognitive Apprenticeship: Teaching the Crafts of Reading, Writing, and Mathematics
- A. Collins, J. Brown, S. E. Newman
- EducationKnowing, Learning, and Instruction
- 1 March 1988
This paper proposes the development of a new cognitive apprenticeship to teach students the thinking and problem-solving skills involved in school subjects such as reading, writing and mathematics.
Retrieval time from semantic memory
- A. Collins, M. R. Quillian
- Computer Science
- 1 April 1969
Design Research: Theoretical and Methodological Issues
- A. Collins, Diana Joseph, Katerine Bielaczyc
- Business
- 1 January 2004
The term "design experiments" was introduced in 1992, in articles by Ann Brown (1992) and Allan Collins (1992). Design experiments were developed as a way to carry out formative research to test and…
Toward a Design Science of Education
- A. Collins
- Education
- 1992
We have had many technologies introduced in classrooms all over the world, but these innovations have provided remarkably little systematic knowledge or accumulated wisdom to guide the development of…
Cognitive Apprenticeship and Instructional Technology
- A. Collins
- Education, Economics
- 1988
Abstract : In earlier times, practically everything was taught by apprenticeship: growing crops, running trades, administering governments. Schools are a recent invention that use many fewer teaching…
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