Scenario Learning: Legal Marginal Participation

Author: J. Lave et al
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Publication Date: 2004-03-01
Features: The past decade has witnessed an essential transformation in learning theory throughout human history, marking the dawn of a new era in creating learning science. A revolution that radically alters the concepts and methods of human learning has emerged. The authors, Lave, is a professor of education at the University of California, Berkeley, and Wenger is a researcher engaged in learning studies. In this book, they conduct an extremely profound reflection on the concepts 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, with this construction being heavily influenced by the broader contextual framework. The book is divided into four parts: 1. Legitimate Peripheral Participation; 2. Practice, People, and the Social World; 3. Midwives, Tailors, Soldiers, Butchers, and Sober Alcoholics; 4. Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice. In summary, this book is an extremely concise and powerful monograph, yet its novel perspective on learning, grounded research style, and original thinking that leaps from the pages leave readers in awe and greatly benefit from it.