Who is Wenger. Who is Lave. What did they achieve when working together. What is socially structured learning. What are the communities of practice. What are the key ideas. What are the levels of participation. What are the key features. What are the critiques of this theory.
WEEK 7 – EDIBTL. Situated learning & communities of
practice.
MON 08/11/21
SLIDE 4: ETIENNE WENGER
o Born = 1952 in Switzerland
o PhD at uni of California in 1990
o Social rather than biological theories of learning
o Anthropologist
SLIDE 5: JEAN LAVE
o Social anthropologist
o PhD social anthropology at Harvard, 1968.
o Situated learning & apprenticeship
SLIDE 6: WORKING TOGETHER
o Apprenticeship as model of learning
o Published ‘situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation’ in 1991
SLIDE 8: SOCIALLY SITUATED LEARNING
1) Meaning
o Talking about our ability to experience life & world as meaningful
2) Practice
o Talking about shared historical & social resources, frameworks & perspectives that
sustain mutual engagement in action
3) Community
o Talking about social configurations
4) Identity
o Talking about how learning changes who we are & creates personal histories of
becoming in the context of our communities (WENGER, 1998)
SLIDE 10: COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
o Mutual engagement (community who interact & learn together/work & support
each other)
o Joint enterprise/domain (collective understanding of activities & purpose/shared
interest)
o Shared repertoire/practice (behaving & communicating, tools & resources)
SLIDE 12: KEY IDEA
o Legitimate peripheral participation
o Learners develop practice through involving themselves in communities with other
practitioners
o Learners gain experience from experienced practitioners
o Learners involved in wide variety of communities of practice
o apprenticeships no longer positioned as learning by doing
SLIDE 14: LEVELS OF PARTICIPATION
o core group = small group, energise & nurture community
o active participants = recognised as participants, define community
o occasional participants = participate when topic is of special interest
o peripheral participants = sustained connection, less engagement
o transactional participants = outsiders interact with community
SLIDE 15: KEY FEATURES
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