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Author Lave, Jean.

Title Situated learning : legitimate peripheral participation / Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger
Published Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (138 pages)
Series Learning in doing
Learning in doing.
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Learning, Psychology of.
Transfer of training.
Learning.
Learning
Transfer, Psychology
Learning
Learning, Psychology of
Transfer of training
Lernpsychologie
Lernumwelt
Lernziel
Pädagogische Psychologie
Pädagogische Situation
Leerprocessen.
Sociaal leren.
Participatie.
Apprentissage, Psychologie de l'.
Transfert d'apprentissage.
Form Electronic book
Author Wenger, Etienne, 1952-
ISBN 9780511815355
0511815352