In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger,
computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is
fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors maintain
that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process
they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of
practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community …