Situated learning : legitimate peripheral participation /
By: Lave, Jean.
Contributor(s): Wenger, Etienne.
Series: Learning in doing : social, cognitive, and computational perspectives: Publisher: Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991, (2009)Description: 138 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521413087 (hardback); 9780521413084:; 9780521413084 (hardback); 0521423740 (pbk.); 9780521423748 (pbk.).Subject(s): Learning, Psychology of![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-129) and index.
Legitimate peripheral participation -- Practice, person, social world -- Midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, nondrinking alcoholics -- Legitimate peripheral participation in communities of practice.
Argues that learning is basically a social process. The authors (an anthropologist and a computer scientist) maintain that learning's central defining characteristic is "legitimate peripheral participation", which provides a way of speaking about crucial relations between newcomers and oldtimers.