Social Theory: A social theory of learning
In Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger (1998) makes the argument that learning is a process of social participation.
Wenger starts with four assumptions about learning, knowledge, knowing, and knowers:
1) We are social beings.... this fact is a central aspect of learning.
2) Knowledge is a matter of competence with respect to valued enterprises.
3) Knowing is a matter of participating in the pursuit of such enterprises, i.e., of active engagement in the world.
4) Meaning -- our ability to experience the world and our engagement with it as meaningful -- is ultimately what learning is to produce.
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