Situated+Cognition

According to Brown, Collins, and Duguid, "[a] theory of situated cognition suggests that activity and perception are importantly and epistemologically prior-at a nonconceptual level-to conceptualization and that it is on this that more attention needs to be focused" (pg. 41). They say that activity and situations are important to learning and must be considered. They also say that different views on what is considered learning activity produces different results in learning (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989).

Greeno (1997, pg 16) states that situated is used in this term as a modifier. In this way, this term is suggesting that not all cognition is situated. According to Greeno, the situative perspective states that all learning and cognition is situated and therefore Greeno does not approve of wording cognition in this way in that it could be misinterpreted.