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1Las Vegas School of Nursing, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
Abstract:
Currently, Nursing Education draws on a commonly taken-for-granted folk psychology of a representational view of how the mind works and how human beings learn. Descartes' representational view of the mind strongly influences pedagogies, theories of learning, curricula, and approaches to testing nursing knowledge and more broadly in academia. A representational view of the mind holds that perception occurs in the mind only through representations in the mind through ideas, concepts, templates and schema. Situated, embodied, and socially embedded cognition is presented as a counter view to a representational view of the mind.
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