Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

A challenging read to be sure, but worth it if you’re at all interested in the difference between learning and being taught.

Read this for thesis and found a framework. I am thrilled by the concepts in this book. I would recommend this to anyone interested in teaching.

I bought this book so long ago and recently purchased a Kindle version. It is a book I re-read every other year to remind me of what I think is important. I teach in a very small multi-level classroom in a small rural school and the industrial production line model of teaching simply is not applicable to us. More a craft shop I use the situated learning model in my classroom. I am at the centre and I am the master, and the students spiral in towards me as they master the knowledge they need to be good students. Starting on the periphery students work alongside peers and more advanced learners.I learnt how to do this it from this book.

Wenger demonstrates well the fact of situated learning. This needs usage in venues other than Industrial training.Paul Dobberstein

Finally it's in digital - dated but a good background read..

I bought this book to support my understanding of communities of practice for my PhD. Great explanation of theories and the real life examples that support those theories.

A must read if you're in education and plan on doing education research!

excellent