Social, Sociocultural and Situated Learning Researchers

Albert Bandura (December 4, 1925, July 26, 2021) was a Canadian-American psychologist and professor of social science in psychology at Stanford University, who contributed to the fields of education and to the fields of psychology (e.g., social cognitive theory, therapy, and personality psychology), and influenced the transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology.

Jean Lave is a social anthropologist who theorizes learning as changing participation in on-going changing practice.

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.

Hutchins is one of the main developers of distributed cognition.

She introduced commognition, a theory of learning that defines thinking as communicating with oneself.

In 1958 he published The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations, which expanded upon his creations of balance theory and attribution theory.

The pioneer of distinct tradition of "activity approach" in Soviet and, subsequently, international psychology.

Aleksei Nikolayevich Leontiev (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Лео́нтьев, IPA: [lʲɪˈonʲtʲjɪf]; February 18, 1903, January 21, 1979), was a Soviet Russian developmental psychologist and philosopher and a founder of activity theory.

Annemarie Sullivan Palincsar is a scholar of education known for her research on literacy instruction, reciprocal teaching, and cognitive apprenticeships.