Situated Learning Legitimate Peripheral Participation
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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…
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815355
- Series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
- Subjects Cognition,Developmental Psychology,Psychology
- Format: Hardback
- Publication date: 27 September 1991
- ISBN: 9780521413084
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.38kg
- Page extent: 140 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Paperback
- Publication date: 27 September 1991
- ISBN: 9780521423748
- Dimensions (mm): 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.23kg
- Page extent: 138 pages
- Availability: Available
- Format: Digital
- Publication date: 05 June 2012
- ISBN: 9780511815355
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