Constructing (in)competence disabling evaluations in clinical and social interaction
Competence and incompetence are constructs that emerge in the social milieu of everyday life. Individuals are continually making and revising judgments about each other's abilities as they interact. The flexible, situated view of competence conveyed by the research of the authors in this volume...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Mahwah, N.J.
L. Erlbaum
1999
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| Collection: | O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Competence and incompetence are constructs that emerge in the social milieu of everyday life. Individuals are continually making and revising judgments about each other's abilities as they interact. The flexible, situated view of competence conveyed by the research of the authors in this volume is a departure from the way that competence is usually thought about in the fields of communication disabilities and education. In the social constructivist view, competence is not a fixed mass, residing within an individual, or a fixed judgment, defined externally. Rather, it is variable, sensitive to |
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| Physical Description: | vi, 381 pages illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781299697546 9781134805006 1134804865 0203763750 1299697542 9781134804931 9780203763759 1134805004 9781134804863 |