Jean Lave

Jean Lave (PhD., Social Anthropology, Harvard University, 1968 [Jean Lave biography. Retrieved March 16, 2008, from University of California at Berkeley Web site: http://geography.berkeley.edu/PeopleHistory/faculty/J_Lave.html] ) is a social anthropologist and social learning theorist. She is currently a Professor of Education and Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Her studies of apprenticeships are recognized as significant contributions to educational psychology.

In 1988, Lave showed that housewives in Irvine, California who could successfully do the mathematics needed for comparison shopping were unable to do the same mathematics when they were placed inside a classroom environment. [Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life (Learning in Doing)" by Jean Lave, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1988) ISBN 0521357349.]

She has published three books:
*"Understanding Practice" (co-authored with Seth Chaiklin, 1993)
*"Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation" (co-authored with Etienne Wenger, 1991)
*"Cognition in Practice" (1988)

Wikibooks includes an [http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Learning_Theorists#Jean_Lave introduction to Lave's ideas] .

References

ee also

*Communities of Practice
*Legitimate peripheral participation
*Situated learning
*Sex and intelligence
*Situated cognition