TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lave,Jean
AU  - Wenger,Etienne
TI  - Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation 
T2  - Learning in doing
SN  - 0521413087
AV  - BF318 .L36 1991
U1  - 153.154 
PY  - 1991///
CY  - Cambridge [England], New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Learning, Psychology of
KW  - Transfer of training
KW  - Learning
KW  - Transfer (Psychology)
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Legitimate peripheral participation -- Practice, person, social world -- Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice
N2  - 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
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0702/91010450-t.html
ER  -