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Theory of learning
Situated learning is a theory that explains an individual's acquisition of professional skills and includes research on apprenticeship into how legitimate peripheral participation leads to membership in a community of practice. Situated learning "takes as its focus the relationship between learning and the social situation in which it occurs". Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Situated learningA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Robots in situated learning classrooms with immediate feedback mechanisms to improve students' learning performanceInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Situational context of educationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Situated Cognition and the Culture of LearningCited 6,941 times
- Go sideways: Situated cognitionA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Constructivism (philosophy of education)A closely related topic
📖 Definitions
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning
Situated Learning and Education
Instructional design for situated learning
Situated Learning in Physical Education
Situated learning: Bridging sociocultural and cognitive theorising
Situated learning in the practice placement
Situated learning and teachers’ digital competence
Situated learning in cross-functional virtual teams
🆕 Influential since 2022
Robots in situated learning classrooms with immediate feedback mechanisms to improve students' learning performance
Socially situated artificial intelligence enables learning from human interaction
Ethical and Responsible AI in Education: Situated Ethics for Democratic Learning
Effects of integrating maternity VR-based situated learning into professional training on students’ learning performances
Learning to generate pointing gestures in situated embodied conversational agents
📚 Books worth reading
Situational context of educationMaria Brisk, Mar¡a Estela Brisk · 2003
Toward a psychology of situationsDavid Magnusson · 1981
Enhancing counselor intervention strategiesSterling K. Gerber · 1999
No Dragons on My QuiltJean Ray Laury, Ritva Laury · 1990
The Survival guide for kids with LD* (Learning differences)Gary L. Fisher, Rhoda Cummings · 1990
Information spaceMax Boisot · 1995
People with intellectual disabilitiesKelley Johnson · 2010
Distributed cognitionsGavriel Salomon · 1993
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🔗 Related topics
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