The essential insights that theories of situ- ated cognition afford the current discussion are that knowledge is contextualized within physical and sociocultural spaces, that it isinextricably bound to the intentional action of actors within these spaces, and that these actors shape and transmit knowledge by means of narrative structures (Bruner, 1986, 1990, 1991; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998).