Popular Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social,

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Paperback. Pub Date: 1991 09 Pages: 332 Publisher: Camidge. University Press In this important HIGHER EDUCATION 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 old-timers and about their activities. identities. artefacts. knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives. tailors. quartermasters. butchers. and recovering alcoholics. however. the process by w...

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