Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world—and why it is so important.

Business & Money

Lave, Jean

Job Hunting & Careers

University of Chicago Press

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world—and why it is so important.

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

In this important theoretical treatist, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP). Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities, identities, artefacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups.

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Wenger, Etienne

Psychology & Counseling

Cambridge University Press

In this innovative study, Jean Lave moves the analysis of one particular form of cognitive activity--arithmetic problem-solving--out of the laboratory and into the domain of everyday life. In so doing, she shows how mathematics in the "real world", such as that entailed in grocery shopping or dieting, is, like all thinking, shaped by the dynamic encounter between the culturally-endowed mind and its total context, a subtle interaction that shapes both the human subject and the world within which it acts.

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing)

In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner's head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and oldtimers and about their activities, identities, artifacts, knowledge and practice. The communities discussed in the book are midwives, tailors, quartermasters, butchers, and recovering alcoholics, however, the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalized to other social groups.

Mental Health

Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice

Written by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, apprenticeship and everyday life, through a critical theory of practice. Each chapter explores in different ways the proposition that learning is a collective, transformative process of change in the historically political complex relations of everyday life. At the same time, the book demonstrates the changing character of Lave's own research practice over two decades. Lave addresses work practices and everyday life and discusses the problem of context and decontextualization. Analyzing two decades of ethnographic studies of craft apprenticeship, she explores teaching as learning and examines the reciprocal effects of theories of everyday life and learning.

Anthropology

La mayor parte de la investigación sobre cognición humana se ha concentrado, hasta el momento, en la resolución de problemas, confinándose al laboratorio. Como resultado de ello, resulta difícil explicar los procesos mentales complejos y su lugar en la cultura y la historia. En este estudio sorprendente (e inquietante) Jean Lave traslada el análisis de una modalidad particular de actividad cognitiva (la resolución de problemas aritméticos) fuera del laboratorio, al ámbito de la vida cotidiana.De esta forma demuestra cómo las matemáticas resultan, como cualquier forma de pensamiento, moldeadas por la interacción dinámica entre la mente, fundamenta culturalmente, y su contexto total; una interacción sutil que moldea a la vez al sujeto humano y al mundo dentro del cual actúa.El estudio se centra en actividades cotidianas, tales como comprar en la tienda o en el supermercado, establecer una dieta, etc. Innovadora en su metodología y fascinante en sus resultados, esta investigación es significativa, sobre todo, por sus contribuciones teóricas. Lave ofrece una crítica convincente de la teoría cognitiva tradicional, partiendo de una alternativa a la reciente teoría social y urdiendo una síntesis precisa a base de elementos provenientes de teorías culturales, teorías de la práctica y del discurso marxista. El resultado es una nueva forma de concebir los procesos de pensamiento humano, una visión de la cognición como la dialéctica entre la actividad de las personas y los entornos en los que se constituye tal actividad.Este libro atraerá por igual a los antropólogos -por su nueva teoría de la relación entre cognición, cultura y contexto- a los científicos cognitivos y teóricos de la educación, y al profano que constituye su sujeto y que se podrá reconocer en él, logro poco frecuente en las modernas ciencias sociales.

La cognicion en la practica / Cognition in Practice (Spanish Edition)

Medical Books

Nursing

Paidos Iberica, Ediciones S. A.

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Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice (Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series)

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp)

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life

Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing)

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice

Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice

La cognicion en la practica / Cognition in Practice (Spanish Edition)