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Situated learning : legitimate peripheral participation / Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger.

By: Lave, Jean [author.].
Contributor(s): Wenger, Etienne, 1952- [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Learning in doing.Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: 138 pages ; 23 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521423748 (paperback); 9780521413084 (hardback).Subject(s): Learning, Psychology of | Transfer of trainingDDC classification: 302
Contents:
Legitimate peripheral participation -- Practice, person, social world -- Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice -- Conclusion.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.

Legitimate peripheral participation -- Practice, person, social world -- Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice -- Conclusion.

CIT Module PLAC 6002 - Core reading.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Legitimate peripheral participation
  • 2 Practice, person, social world
  • 3 Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics
  • 4 Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice
  • 5 Conclusion
  • References
  • Index