Jean Lave is a social anthropologist who theorizes learning as changing participation in on-going changing practice, and her lifework challenges conventional theories of learning and education. She is named as the originator, together with Etienne Wenger, of situated learning, a theory that explains an individual's acquisition of professional skills and studies how legitimate peripheral participation leads to membership in a community of practice. The concept of a community of practice was first proposed by Lave and Wenger in their 1991 book Situated Learning.
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is currently a professor emerita of geography at the University of California, Berkeley
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Jean Lave is a social anthropologist who theorizes learning as changing participation in on-going changing practice.
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Educational anthropology is largely associated with the pioneering work of Margaret Mead and later, George Spindler, Solon Kimball, Dell Hymes, and Jean Lave.
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These ideas are what Lave & Wenger (1991) call the process of "legitimate peripheral participation."
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Lave and Wenger see situated learning in certain forms of social co-participation and instead of asking what kinds of cognitive processes and conceptual structures are involved, they focus on the kinds of social engagements that provide the proper context and facilitate learning.
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The concept was first proposed by cognitive anthropologist Jean Lave and educational theorist Etienne Wenger in their 1991 book Situated Learning.
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Legitimate peripheral participation was central to Lave and Wenger's take on situated cognition (referred to as "situated activity") because it introduced socio-cultural and historical realizations of power and access to the way thinking and knowing are legitimated.
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