Book & Authors

The Book

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

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

The People

Jean Lave

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

Social anthropologist with a strong interest in social theory.

Etienne Wenger
Pioneer of "community of practice" research.

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

Current 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