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  • noun psychology embeddedness in a culture

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situated +‎ -ness

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  • Regardless of approach, we can glean much from existing theories of learning - namely the situatedness, sociability, and contextual dimensions of learning.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • Although the popularisation of the word "situated" was done by others (Suchman, Lave, Brown) Papert / Harel argue that the idea of situatedness is an important theme in the development of logo based constructionism - along with the idea of fluency (another important word here)

    why maths and science are hard Bill Kerr 2008

  • Regardless of approach, we can glean much from existing theories of learning - namely the situatedness, sociability, and contextual dimensions of learning.

    letter from George Siemens Bill Kerr 2008

  • It is true enough that Dixon's language reflects his protagonists 'perspective, their "situatedness," but that it "attaches itself" to the flow of consciousness seems to me a misperception of Dixon's approach.

    Narrative Strategies 2009

  • "situatedness" (to steal a term from Dr. Gaffin), so do the Gospels.

    finitum non capax infiniti 2008

  • To that I add the cultural situatedness and affective dimensions!

    Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis (Mobiot/Lomborg debate) | Serendipity 2009

  • They help keep the full situatedness of literature alive and visible.

    An Indie Bookstore Road Trip - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Beyond the historical situatedness of artistic communication (the fact that an artistic language re-uses the language of its contemporaries), the task of giving sense on the basis of being-in-the-world is part of the metaphysical condition of being human, and so applicable to all humans throughout history.

    Existentialist Aesthetics Deranty, Jean-Philippe 2009

  • It is characterized by an unflinching interrogation of inherited, seemingly foundational concepts, leading to the demonstration of their situatedness in Western modernity.

    James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Jenny Sanford Exacts Revenge, Newsweek Provides Helpful Alien Advice 2009

  • If you are a hard core anecdotalist nothing exists in any meaningful way beyond the situatedness of the phenomenon anyway.

    Maxwell's Hammer 2008

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