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ERIC Number: ED599785
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 8
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Cognition in the Workplace: Analyses of Heuristics in Action
Chahine, Iman C.; Naresh, Nirmala
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Joint Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME) (38th) and the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA) (36th, Vancouver, Canada, Jul 15-20, 2014)
Studies on cognition have capitalized on the role of contexts and experience in shaping our cognitive competence. In the past few decades, the mathematical education research field has begun to pay increased attention to the mathematics practices of both adults and children that take place in non-academic settings. As a result, theoretical fields such as ethnomathematics, situated cognition, and workplace mathematics have gained prominence. In this paper, we use Vergnaud's theory of conceptual fields to highlight the workplace mathematical activities of two groups of practitioners-Street vendors in Lebanon, and Bus conductors in India. [For the complete proceedings, see ED597799.]
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Lebanon; India
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