Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Lave, Jean

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

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Additional Authors

Wenger, Etienne, 1952-

Description

138 p.; 24 cm.

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.

Series Statement

Learning in doing

Uniform Title

Learning in doing

Subject

• Learning
• Learning, Psychology of
• Transfer of training
• Transfer, Psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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

ISBN

• 0521413087 (hardback)
• 0521423740 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91010450^

OCLC

• 23287084
• SCSB-12194338

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library