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

Author/creator Lave, Jean author.
Other author Wenger, Etienne, 1952- author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Copyright Date©1991
Description138 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects

SeriesLearning in doing: social, cognitive, and computational perspectives
Learning in doing. ^A240949
Contents Legitimate peripheral participation -- Practice, person, social world -- Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice.
Abstract 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 125-129) and index.
LCCN 91010450
ISBN0521413087 (hbk.)
ISBN9780521413084 (hbk.)
ISBN0521423740 (pbk.)
ISBN9780521423748 (pbk.)
Govt. docs number PET3603

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks BF318 .L36 1991 ✔ Available Place Hold