Situational Learning (Legitimate Peripheral Participation)

Author: J. Lave et al. (Authored by J. Lave), Translated by Wang Wenjing
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Publish Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The author Lave is an education professor at the University of California, Berkeley, while Wenger is a researcher engaged in learning studies. In this book, they conduct an extremely profound reflection on the concept of learning. From an anthropological perspective, they focus their research on the whole person, view knowledge as an attribute and product of connections between individuals and social or physical contexts, and shift the focus of learning research to the characteristics of learners' social participation in communities of practice, thereby considering participation as a key component of learning. Consequently, the theory posits that meaning and identity are co-constructed simultaneously in interaction, and this construction is greatly influenced by the broader contextual framework. The book is divided into four parts: 1. Legitimate Peripheral Participation; 2. Practice, Person, and Social World; 3. Midwife, Tailor, Bootmaker, Butcher, and Sober Drinker; 4. Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice. In summary, the book is an extremely concise and powerful monograph, but its novel perspective on learning research, grounded research style, and original thinking that leaps from the pages leave readers in awe and deeply enriched.