Situated Learning (Learning in Doing Download

Author: Jean Lave
Edition: 1
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B00AKE1UA0

Situated Learning (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

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. Download Situated Learning (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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, Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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