Editing Situated cognition (section)

===Knowing===
Situativity theorists recast knowledge not as an entity, thing, or noun, but as knowing as an action or verb.<ref name="Greeno, 1994"/> It is not an entity which can be collected as in knowledge acquisition models. Instead knowing is reciprocally co-determined between the agent and environment.<ref name="br2006">Barab & Roth, 2006</ref> This reciprocal interaction can not be separated from the context and its cultural and historical constructions.<ref name=":0" />  Therefore, knowing isn't a matter of arriving at any single truth but instead it is a particular stance that emerges from the agent-environment interaction.<ref name="br2006" />

Knowing emerges as individuals develop intentions<ref>Young, 1997</ref> through goal-directed activities within cultural contexts which may in turn have larger goals and claims of truth. The adoption of intentions relates to the direction of the agent's attention to the detection of affordances in the environment that will lead to accomplishment of desired goals. Knowing is expressed in the agent's ability to act as an increasingly competent participant in a community of practice. As agents participate more fully within specific communities of practice, what constitutes knowing continuously evolves.<ref name=":0" />  For example, a novice environmentalist may not look at water quality by examining oxygen levels but may consider the color and smell.<ref name="br2006" /> Through participation and enculturation within different communities, agents express knowing through action.