Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (learning In Doing: Social, Cognitive And Computational Perspectives)
by Jean Lave /
1991 / English / PDF
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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.
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.