2. Situated Learning
• Communities of practice
• Legitimate peripheral participation
• Situated learning, situated cognition,
learning in situ
• Cognitive apprenticeships
• Tools and learning
• Canonical practice
• Narration, collaboration, and social
construction of knowledge
• Inert knowledge vs. robust knowledge
• Organizations as communities of
communities
3. Four Major premises
• Learning is grounded in actions
of everyday situations
• Knowledge is acquired
situationally and transfers only
to similar situations
• Learning is a social process
• Learning is not separated from
action
4. Unique Factors in Situated
Learning
• Students learn content through
activities rather than by acquiring
information as organized by
instructors
• Content is inherent in doing the task
• Learning is dilemma-driven
• Subject matter emerges from cues in
the environment and from dialogue
among the community
6. Traditional vs. Situated Learning
• Formal
• Retention of new
knowledge
• Teacher centered
• Learning in
individual mind
• School activity
• Deliberate
• Acquiring info in
discrete packages
• Content-driven
• Informal
• Application of new
knowledge
• Participative/ cooperative
• Participatory / community
• Authentic situations
• Unintentional (incidental)
• Learning content through
activity
• Structure of learning
implicit in experience
7. What is a Community of
Practice (CoPs)?
What kind of CoPs do you
belong?
8. Key Features - CoP
• Informal, ever-changing
membership
• Movement from periphery of
practice to full membership
• Negotiated meanings unique to
the community, replete with its
own jargon
• Sites of knowledge construction
9. What are the implications
for the idea that knowledge
is socially constructed, not
acquired, to your field of
practice?
10. What are the implications
for the idea that knowledge
is socially constructed, not
acquired, to your field of
practice?