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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Legitimate peripheral participation"”.
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A Community of Practice Using Computer -Mediated Communication for Legitimate Peripheral Participation
… over time. Lave and Wenger's (1991) concept of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) plays an integral role in the reproduction of Communities of Practice. As an approach to situated learning, LPP includes not only traditional apprenticeship methods of learning but also ""indirect"" CMC …
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A study of teaching assistants' engagement with a mathematics block of learning
… outcomes, and Lave & Wenger’s (1991) theory of ‘legitimate peripheral participation’. All nine teaching assistants identified positive outcomes from their study relating to their practice, in particular their increased confidence in mathematics as a subject, and ability to work with children in a …
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The Efficacy of Knowledge Sharing: Centralized Vs. Self-Organizing Online Communities
… that community. Using a framework comprised of legitimate peripheral participation theory and the weak-ties phenomenon, the study focuses on a comparative analysis of self-organizing online communities (e.g., weblog networks) and centralized online communities (e.g., discussion forums …
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SME leaders’ learning in networked learning: An Actor-network theory and Communities of Practice theory informed analysis
… This takes place through the process of legitimate peripheral participation. Gaining fuller participation leads to an increased identification with that of ‘leader’. Thirdly, the study theorises four conceptual learning spaces to show where the delegates learn. They are conceived of as an …
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A Case Study of Doctoral Research Assistantships: Access and Experiences of Full-Time and Part-Time Education Students
… of access, distribution, and coordination of participation) to explore the ways institutional regulations, informal practices, and social relations promote, prevent, or limit full-time and part-time students’ legitimate peripheral participation in research assistantships. Although I devoted …
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The silent experiences of young bilingual learners : a small scale sociocultural study into the silent period
… tongue, thought, and learning.<br></br><br></br> Legitimate peripheral participation is examined as a workable concept through which to explore the initial learning trajectory of an emergent bilingual learner whilst negotiating participation within, through and beyond the early years community of …
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Journeying together towards goodness: participant understanding of practices and narratives in a University of the Nations Discipleship Training School
… Lave and Wenger’s social learning theory of Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) in a Community of Practice (CoP). Resources in practical theology, such as works by Dykstra and Bass, ground this study in the Christian tradition. Particular attention is given to DTS participants’ pursuit …
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Are housing professionals born or made? The role of education and identity amongst housing professionals in Ireland.
… on the importance of communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation in allowing a coherent professional identity to emerge. The centrality of caring and cared-for citizen is highlighted and the importance of flexibility and responsiveness is noted, as social housing professionals …
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SME leaders’ learning in networked learning : an actor-network theory and communities of practice theory informed analysis
… This takes place through the process of legitimate peripheral participation. Gaining fuller participation leads to an increased identification with that of „leader‟. Thirdly, the study theorises four conceptual learning spaces to show where the delegates learn. They are conceived of as an …
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Analyzing Stakeholder Perceptions of Gaps in Public Sexuality Education: Curriculum, Context, and Community
… (van Anders, 2015). I also used the theory of legitimate peripheral participation, which is a well-established theory of social interaction that can explain how learning occurs within and around a community (Lave and Wenger, 1991). I analyzed the curriculum of two rural public school divisions …
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Disciplinary Participation and Genre Acquisition of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Composition
… and Prior, 2005; Thaiss and Zawacki, 2006), and legitimate peripheral participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger 1998), this dissertation examines the transition that composition GTAs undergo during their first year of graduate school. Many of these GTAs move from little or no knowledge of …
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An exploratory study of the lived experience of newly appointed Health Care Assistants (HCAs) during their first six months in a role within an Acute Hospital setting.
… the theories of Newcomer Adjustment and Legitimate Peripheral Participation. This led to the idea of ‘Belonging to their role’ and ‘Belonging to their ward’ as two interrelated concepts that frame the lived experience. A framework for the experience of newly appointed Health Care …
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An exploration of the efficacy of instructor modelling in the application of situated learning to educating student British Sign Language/English interpreters in healthcare interpreting
… of practice, where students can experience legitimate peripheral participation. This improvement in practice was sought in response to the call for interpreter education to address the perceived ‘readiness to work’ gap, which contributes to the disparity in health outcomes between deaf …
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A phenomenological study of experiences in blended librarianship among academic librarians in Zimbabwe with special reference to selected higher education institutions
… constructs from Lave and Wenger's (1991) Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) and Communities of Practice (CoP), to understand how academic librarians learnt in the workplace through involvement in authentic work tasks. The research methodology relied on Heidegger’s Interpretive …
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Situated Evaluation of an Interorganizational Collaboration
… is a priority in professional development. Using legitimate peripheral participation (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and the existing research on collaboration as conceptual frameworks (Rosenthal & Mizrahi, 1996), this study examined the processes that led to the establishment of the HelpSource Consortium …
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Becoming an academic : a study of learning to judge student performance in three disciplines at a South African university
… part, I applied the concepts of habitus and legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) to understand how new academics engaged with the communities of practice in their departments and learnt how to judge student performance of complex assessment tasks. The study revealed limitations in the …
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A classroom of life : a qualitative analysis of the reflections of medical students on their entry into an obstetric community of practice
… its notions of community of practice and legitimate peripheral participation. Additional insights are provided by ritual theory, with its notions of separation,transition and integration. Other important concepts include the role of reflection in learning and critical discourse analysis as …
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Constructing Leadership Identities through Participation in a Leadership Living-Learning Community
… practice" and the identity formation process of "legitimate peripheral participation" (Lave & Wenger, 1991). The unit of analysis for this case study was a first-year, leadership-themed living-learning community at a four-year, land grant university in the Eastern United States. The purpose of the …
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An exploration into the development of professional teacher identity of student teachers in Wales
… a more cohesive experience as they progress from Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Lave & Wenger, 1991) to a more integral position within the teaching community of practice. This study indicates that considering the contexts as two separate CoPs creates conflict for student teachers as they …
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Questioning (in) school mathematics : lifeworlds and ecologies of practice
<p>The nature and experience of participation in school mathematics classrooms is considered through the analytical frames of community of practice theory (Lave and Wenger 1991; Wenger 1998) and the lifeworld by focussing on interactions generated by verbal teacher questioning of the whole …
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