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Situated Learning

Paperback • 1991 • English

Situated Learning

By Jean Lave

18 Ratings • 4.8 of 5

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About the book

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 commu...Show more

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ISBN

9780521423748

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published year

1991

Language

English

Original title

Situated Learning

Format

Paperback

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