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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is …
Communities of Practice
This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by …
Assessment, Equity, and Opportunity to Learn
Providing all students with a fair opportunity to learn (OTL) is perhaps the most pressing issue facing U.S. education. Moving beyond conventional notions of OTL – as access to …
From Teams to Knots
Teams are commonly celebrated as efficient and humane ways of organizing work and learning. By means of a series of in-depth case studies of teams in the United States and Finland …
Perspectives on Activity Theory
Activity theory is an interdisciplinary approach to human sciences that originates in the cultural-historical psychology school, initiated by Vygotsky, Leont’ev, and Luria. It …
Beyond Communities of Practice
The concept of 'communities of practice' (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become an influential one in education, management, and social sciences in recent years. This book …
Mind and Social Practice
Sylvia Scribner’s research and theory have been monumental in forming the emergent field of cultural psychology. Her studies of reasoning and thinking in their cultural and …
Self-Making Man
This book portrays one day in the communicative life of the owner of an auto repair-shop in Texas. He walks, looks, points, shows and explains engines, makes sense by gesture, …
Sensing in Social Interaction
This book offers a novel perspective on how people engage in sensing the materiality of the world as a way of social interaction. It proposes a conceptual and analytical advance in …
Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning
While many of us are concerned with the loss of communal spaces and ties that broaden one’s sense of self beyond the ‘me’ or ‘I’ and into the ‘we’ and ‘us’, less clear are the …
Cultural Development of Mathematical Ideas
Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical …
Co-Operative Action
Co-Operative Action proposes a new framework for the study of how human beings create action and shared knowledge in concert with others by re-using transformation resources …