legitimate_peripheral_participation


 * legitimate peripheral participation (lpp)**

//define lpp// & its relation to CoPs.

John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid argue > legitimate peripheral participation (lpp) is not an academic synonym for apprenticeship. Apprenticeship can offer a useful metaphor for the way people learn. In the end, however, in part because of the way apprenticeship has historically been "operationalized," the metaphor can be seriously misleading. As LPP has occasionally been located somewhere between indentured servitude and conscription.

Brown and Duguid quote Lave and Wenger > Legitimate peripheral participation is not itself an educational form, much less a pedagogical strategy or a teaching technique. It is an analytic viewpoint on learning, a way of understanding learning. We hope to make it clear that learning through legitimate peripheral participation takes place no matter which educational form provides a context for learning, or whether there is any intentional educational form at all. Indeed, this viewpoint makes a fundamental distinction between learning and intentional instruction. [1991, p. 400; quoted 'LPP as legitimate theft' sect. ]

Fuller, A., Hodkinson, H., Hodkinson, P., & Unwin, L. (2005). Learning as peripheral participation in communities of practice: a reassessment of key concepts in workplace learning. //British Educational Research Journal, 31//(1), 49. Harris, R., Simons, M., & Carden, P. (2004). Peripheral journeys: Learning and acceptance of probationary constables. //Journal of Workplace Learning, 16//(4), 205-218.
 * Further reading**


 * References**

John Seely Brown, & Paul Duguid stolen knowledge 1992 Educational Technology Publications http://www2.parc.com/ops/members/brown/papers/stolenknow.html

Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). //Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation//. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.