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Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
by Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger (1991)

• The term "Communities of Practice" was coined in this book.

Professor of Education and Geography, University of Berkeley, California.

Social anthropologist with a strong interest in social theory.

Much of her work concentrates on the re-conceiving of learning, learners, and educational institutions in terms of social practice.

Selected books:

• Understanding Practice (co-authored with S. Chaiklin, 1993);
• Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (with E. Wenger, 1991);
• Cognition in Practice (1988).

2004 Keynote speaker OKLC 2004 Fifth European Conference on Organizational Knowledge, Learning and Capabilities. "Communities of Practice as Inter-Generation-al Relations"

Pioneer of "community of practice" research.

Author and co-author:

• Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
• Cultivating Communities of Practice: a Guide to Managing Knowledge (Harvard Business School Press, 2002)

Founder of CPsquare: cross-organizational, cross-sector community of practice on communities of practice
http://www.cpsquare.org/

Research Project: Learning for a Small Planet
broad, cross-sectoral investigation of the nature of learning and learning institutions at the dawn of the new millennium
http://www.ewenger.com/research/researchsummary.htm

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