In "Schema Theory Revisited", the authors summarize and define the core concepts of the text as "(1) Schema and other cognitive processes or structures are embodied---that is, who we are as biological beings determines our sensorial interactions with the world and thus the nature of the representations we construct; (2) knowledge is situated in the transaction between world and individual; and (3) these transactions are mediated by culturally and socially enacted practices carried out through material and ideal artifacts."
Personally, I find this kind of terminology a bit overblown. They spend thirty pages of philosophizing about the topic, before ultimately deciding on a long and winding way to say "Humans base their behaviors and ideas about the world on their past experiences." They don't really have any answers to any questions, they've just come up with an articulation of a fundamental concept, and then conclude with "we don't actually know how big 'schema' should be, there would need to be more research", so it's even more ambiguous as to whether there's anything useful here.
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