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Situated learning : legitimate peripheral participation / Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger.

By:

Lave, Jean [author.]

Contributor(s):

Wenger, Etienne, 1952- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Learning in doingPublisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991Description: 138 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0521413087
9780521413084
0521423740
9780521423748

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:

153.154

LOC classification:

BF318 .L36 1991

Online resources:

Table of contents

Contents:

Legitimate peripheral participation -- Practice, person, social world -- Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice.

Summary: Publisher's description: In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and oldtimers and about their activities, identities, artifacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalized to other social groups.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Publisher's description: In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and oldtimers and about their activities, identities, artifacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalized to other social groups.

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