Étienne Charles Wenger, born in 1952, is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation, with Jean Lave, of the theory of situated cognition and for his more recent work in the field of communities of practice. The concept of a community of practice was first proposed by Lave and Wenger in their 1991 book Situated Learning, and Wenger significantly expanded on the concept in his 1998 book Communities of Practice, which treats learning as a social process within a shared practice.
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Étienne Charles Wenger (born 1952) is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice.
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These ideas are what Lave & Wenger (1991) call the process of "legitimate peripheral participation."
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Communities of Practice - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger
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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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