Situated Learning

Question 1

Describe ‘learning as participation’.

Answer 1

Learning cannot be seen as individual, internal, cognitive process but as a social activity that takes place in a complex socio-cultural world

Question 2

What have researchers and psychologists observed in schools?

Answer 2

That in many cases students in schools learned specific skills/knowledge that could not be used outside of the school content.

Question 3

What are 4 implications for practitioners?

Answer 3

• Identify what is to be learned.
• Consider ‘real’ world situations in which this learning is to be used
• Select to get the learners engaged in those practises that are consistent with practises of the real world.
• Recontextualise - authentic learning opportunities.

Question 4

What are the 2 perspectives of Situated Learning?

Answer 4

• Psychological perspective
• Anthropological perspective

Question 5

What is ‘psychological perspective’?

Answer 5

• Learning is situated in particular contexts.
• Participate in authentic practises reflecting the real world.
• Construction of meaning.

Question 6

What is anthropological perspective?

Answer 6

• Learning is situated in CoP.
• Participate in social practises of the community - ‘real world’
• Construction of meaning and identities

Question 7

According to Wenger, what is a CoP?

Answer 7

“Communities of practise are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better”

Question 8

What 3 things make up a CoP?

Answer 8

1) Domain - shared domain of interest; membership implies a commitment to the domain; shared competence
2) Community - learn from one another in order to pursue and improve their domain of interest
3) Practise - members of a CoP are practitioners

Question 9

What does the ‘Legitimate’ in Legitimate Peripheral Participation mean?

Answer 9

Legitimate - participation in the community’s practises matters to the community’s successful performance.

Question 10

What does the ‘Peripheral’ in Legitimate Peripheral Participation mean?

Answer 10

Peripheral - The member of the community us novice whose learning trajectory is expected to results in full participation.

Question 11

What does the ‘Participation’ in Legitimate Peripheral Participation mean?

Answer 11

Participation - The ability to learn develops in close relation to the ability to participate in and perform tasks