"It is exactly in those organizations in which control through the narrowing, trivialization, and decomposition of full participation is most common--in schools and workplaces--that learning is most often an institutional motive and yet, by the argument here, most likely to fail" (Lave, 1991, p. 78).


References

Lave, J. (1991). Situating learning in communities of practice. In L. B. Resnick, J. M. Levine, & S. D. Teasley (Eds.), Perspectives on socially shared cognition (pp. 63-82). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

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To make it a little easier for people to find articles I cite, I've started to embed COinS. That way, if you are using something like libX or Zotero you can access/import the data automagically.

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