Jean Lave

Jean Lave (PhD) is an American professor of ethnography, sociology and anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Geography.

1988 Lave showed that housewives dominated in Irvine, California, the mathematics of price comparison of consumer goods, but in an environment that resembles a classroom whose were no longer capable.

She is a representative of the concept of " participatory learning " which includes a reorganization of the teaching situation. The teacher-student constellation is dissolved in favor of a skilled trades master novices constellation. The novice should learn from the master and adapt over time his skills to that of the Master, even exceed them.

Bibliography

  • With S. Chaiklin, Understanding Practice ( 1993)
  • E. Wenger, Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (1991 )
  • Cognition in Practice ( 1988)
  • On learning, in: Critical Psychology Forum 38
  • Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life ( Learning in Doing ), Cambridge University Press ( 1988)
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