Situated Learning Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Name: Situated Learning Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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ISBN: 9780521423748

ISBN-10: 0521423740

ISBN-13: 9780521423748

Edition: 1991

Authors: Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, John Seely Brown, Christian Heath, Roy Pea

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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,…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/27/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 138
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

John Seely Brown is Former Chief Scientist, Xerox Corp and former director of its Palo AltoResearch Center (PARC), and co-author of The Social Life of Information.



Acknowledgements



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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