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Author Patel, Charmi, author

Title Situated Learning
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2018

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Description 1 online resource : text file, PDF
Series The Macat Library
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; WAYS IN TO THE TEXT; Who Are Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger?; What Does Situated Learning Say?; Why Does Situated Learning Matter?; SECTION 1: INFLUENCES; Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context; Module 2: Academic Context; Module 3: The Problem; Module 4: The AuthorĂ¢#x80;#x99;s Contribution; SECTION 2: IDEAS; Module 5: Main Ideas; Module 6: Secondary Ideas; Module 7: Achievement; Module 8: Place in the AuthorĂ¢#x80;#x99;s Work; SECTION 3: IMPACT; Module 9: The First Responses; Module 10: The Evolving Debate; Module 11: Impact and Influence Today
Module 12: Where Next?Glossary of Terms; People Mentioned in the Text; Works Cited
Summary "Social anthropologist Jean Lave and computer scientist Etienne Wenger's seminal Situated Learning helped change the fields of cognitive science and pedagogy by approaching learning from a novel angle. Traditionally, theories of learning and education had focused on processes of cognition - the mental processes of knowledge formation that occur within an individual. Lave and Wenger chose to look at learning not as an individual process, but a social one. As so often with the creative thinking process, a small, simple shift in emphasis was all that was required to show things in an entirely different light. What Situated Learning illustrated - and emphasized - was that learning is dependent on its social situation. Even though the most effective way to learn is through interaction with experts and peers in a community organized around a common interest, the traditional cognitive learning model failed to account for the way in which learners interact with their 'community of practice.' The new hypothesis that Lave and Wenger developed was that learning can be seen as a continuously evolving set of relationships situated within a social context. This allowed Lave and Wenger to place discussions of apprenticeship and workplace learning on a new footing - and led in turn to the book's impressive impact in business and management scholarship."--Provided by publisher
Subject Wenger, Etienne, 1952-
Cognitive science.
Critical thinking.
Cognitive science
Critical thinking
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781912281039
1912281031