Representational Systems and Practices as Learning Tools
Andersen, Christopher / Scheuer, Nora / Perez Echeverra, Mara Del Puy L.
Learning and teaching complex cultural knowledge calls for meaningful participation in different kinds of symbolic practices, which in turn are supported by a wide range of external representations, as gestures, oral language, graphic representations, writing and many other systems designed to account for properties and relations on some 2- or 3-dimensional objects. Children start their apprenticeship of these symbolic practices very early in ...