In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining charac[...]

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 which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions[...]

Communities of Practice in Health and Social Care highlights how communities of practice (CoPs) can make service development and quality improvement in health and social care easier to initiate and more sustainable. Using a series of case studies from the UK and Australia the book demonstrates how [...]

Etienne Wenger er i Danmark nok mest kendt for sit samarbejde med Jean Lave, bl.a. omkring bogen Situeret læring,

IPraksisfællesskaber går Etienne Wenger et skridt videre og giver sit bud på en egentlig, systematisk læringsteori. Hans hovedsynspunkt er, at læring ikke bl[...]