Supposing learning is
social and comes largely from of our experience of participating in daily life?
It was this thought that formed the basis of a significant rethinking of
learning theory in the late 1980s and early 1990s by two researchers from
very different disciplines - Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger. Their model of
situated learning proposed that learning
involved a process of engagement in a 'community of practice'.
Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice - 1 views
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When looking closely at everyday activity, she has argued, it is clear that 'learning is ubiquitous in ongoing activity, though often unrecognized as such' (Lave 1993: 5).
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Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavour: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school, a network of surgeons exploring novel techniques, a gathering of first-time managers helping each other cope. In a nutshell: Communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. (Wenger circa 2007)
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Defining Differentiated Instruction | Edutopia - 0 views
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Equal education is not all students getting the same, but all students getting what they need.
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first step is to find out as much as you can about her educational history and anything else. This includes learning about her interests, cultural background, learning style, and something about her home life (The youngest? Foster care? Single parent home?)
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