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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
Jean Lave
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Paperback. In this important theoretical treatist, the authors push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Num Pages: 138 pages. BIC Classification: JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210. Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. 138 pages. In this important theoretical treatist, the authors push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JM. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 8. Weight: 210.
In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, ... Read more
In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
138
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Series
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Condition
New
Number of Pages
138
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521423748
SKU
V9780521423748
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Reviews for Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
"...is undoubtedly worth reading. Lave and Wenger present an interesting and strong position on issues which are of basic interest to practice theory in a broader sense, and not just issues on learning and apprenticeship." Carsten Osterlund, Nyhedsbrev