Regardless of approach, we can glean much from existing theories of learning - namely the situatedness, sociability, and contextual dimensions of learning. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative Strategies] Reference
"situatedness" (to steal a term from Dr. Gaffin), so do the Gospels. From Wordnik.com. [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference
To that I add the cultural situatedness and affective dimensions!. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change is mankind’s defining crisis (Mobiot/Lomborg debate) | Serendipity] Reference
They help keep the full situatedness of literature alive and visible. From Wordnik.com. [An Indie Bookstore Road Trip - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com] Reference
Brooks claim is that Minsky erred in not putting the concepts of situatedness and embodiment onto the AI research agenda. From Wordnik.com. [the emotion machine] Reference
If you are a hard core anecdotalist nothing exists in any meaningful way beyond the situatedness of the phenomenon anyway. From Wordnik.com. [Maxwell's Hammer] Reference
The universal values from the Enlightenment have to be replaced by the "progressiveness" of particularity and situatedness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
So, situatedness means relevance, which is likely to increase motivation, which is like to lead to immersion and effortful study. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Tony also connected immersion to situatedness in his comment:Only immersion works but we can try to provide immersive PD for teachers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Brooks AI revolution about the significance of situatedness and embodiment, on the importance of sensory devices and using the real world as a model. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
It is characterized by an unflinching interrogation of inherited, seemingly foundational concepts, leading to the demonstration of their situatedness in Western modernity. From Wordnik.com. [James Warren: This Week in Magazines: Jenny Sanford Exacts Revenge, Newsweek Provides Helpful Alien Advice] Reference
Since at least the pre-Socratics the greatest minds have striven to understand the relation of the incommensurable to our situatedness at a particular moment in a specific time. From Wordnik.com. [Sokal's Hoax: An Exchange] Reference
In her essay, “Throwing Like a Girl,” Young concentrates instead on “the situatedness of the woman's actual bodily movement and orientation to its surroundings and its world” (Young 1990b, 143). From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Perspectives on Power] Reference
Perhaps the critique of centralised, abstract documents attempting to control teachers is similar to Brooks elevating the importance of situatedness and embodiment in AI research. ie. teachers are the embodiment of the Curriculum. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
The point is not merely that in 1919 Heidegger was already thinking about the problem of situatedness in terms that draw upon notions of happening and gathering, and so on, terms that are at the core of the later notion of Event, but that the notions at issue here are themselves already bound together. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Existentialist Aesthetics] Reference
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews gets around to Alain Badiou's Being and Event, wherein Badiou is......insistent that philosophies which emphasize our situatedness, the fragility of our thinking, and our unsurpassable being-towards-death, cannot help but conjure up meaning in a nostalgic manner, since human finitude, so understood, necessarily stands in relation to a crypto-divine infinite. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
I would expect these frameworks to have a pedagogical use, but not a really generative use for new research and emergent problems. response to Anne about the situatedness of the scientific observer. From Wordnik.com. [Serendip's Exchange -] Reference
"In everything from journalism to the sciences … claims and appeals to objectivity tend to do more to mask interest and situatedness than they do to actually assist in knowledge in any way," says the literature professor. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Higher Ed] Reference
I could certainly come up with all kinds of interpretations of the text, but it is likely they would miss the mark of what Hawthorne intended and/or the full richness of meaning in the text without its historical situatedness. From Wordnik.com. [finitum non capax infiniti] Reference
"One of the things we must do," she explains, "is to replace perspective, the human scale, the point of view, the situatedness of human experience within this social and cultural order and it's representation in visual and graphical form.". From Wordnik.com. [MIT World: Recent Updates] Reference
Beyond our finitude, beyond our situatedness, and beyond our particular perspectives, speculative realism marshals an array of logical arguments and empirical evidence to demonstrate that we are not inherently limited by language or conscious experience. From Wordnik.com. [Larval Subjects .] Reference
Which brings up my problems with transgenderism and it’s situatedness within the current gender binary. From Wordnik.com. [Responding To The Feminist Anti-Transsexual Arguments] Reference
I need communication of content & situatedness not speed and compression, especially if I’m trying to study the dimensions of perception and affect. From Wordnik.com. [Social epistemology and climate denialism | Serendipity] Reference
What is it used for?) • History / genealogy / origin (Where did it come from?) • Ecology / situatedness (How does it relate to people and other objects?) • Social Contexts. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Elson uses this point to argue that world cannot be appropriated fully in thought; she suggests, however, that it could perhaps be fully appropriated in practice 143 - a position I’m not sure Marx would share, as practice also has its situatedness, its form: I’m not sure that appropriation of the world can be “completed”, whether in thought or in practice… She then moves to a criticism specifically of capital logic approaches for confusing capital - which she takes to be a category of analysis - with an entity, existent in the world in some form. From Wordnik.com. [Symbiotic readings of Marx and Hegel integrating kernel and shell] Reference
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