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Other theorists (Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, Lev Vygotsky, John Dewey, and J. G. Greeno) associated with situated learning theory argue that knowledge must be taught in context and not in the abstract. Learners must use tools as practitioners use them and become "cognitive apprentices" in that discipline's community and its culture.
In 1991, Lave pioneered the theories of situated learning and communities of practice with the publication of her seminal text, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (in collaboration with her student Étienne Wenger). The theory of situated learning posits that, in the words of anthropologist Nigel Rapport, learning is a ...
While situated cognition gained recognition in the field of educational psychology in the late twentieth century, [3] it shares many principles with older fields such as critical theory, [4] [5] anthropology (Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger, 1991), philosophy (Martin Heidegger, 1968), critical discourse analysis (Fairclough, 1989), and sociolinguistics theories (Bakhtin, 1981) that rejected the ...
Through the study of these cases Lave and Wenger concluded that most learning does not take place with the master, it takes place among the apprentices. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Wenger holds that learning is an inherently social process and that it cannot be separated from the social context in which it happens.
The communities Lave and Wenger studied were naturally forming as practitioners of craft and skill-based activities met to share experiences and insights. [2] Lave and Wenger observed situated learning within a community of practice among Yucatán midwives, Liberian tailors, navy quartermasters and meat cutters, [2] and insurance claims ...
Network of practice (often abbreviated as NoP) is a concept originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. [1] This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, [2] refers to the overall set of various types of informal, emergent social networks that facilitate information exchange between individuals with practice-related goals.
Anchored Instruction is a technology centered learning approach, which falls under the social constructionism paradigm. It is a form of situated learning [ 2 ] that emphasizes problem-solving within an integrated learning context, which can be examined from multiple perspectives.
Learning and apprenticeship within practice communities are processes that place individual experience and everyday practice in active discourse with the broader context of their society. According to Wenger and Lave, learning is "situated" through practice of novices and expert practitioners.