Etienne Wenger
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Etienne C. Wenger (born 1952) is an educational theorist and practitioner, best known for his formulation (with Jean Lave) of the theory of situated cognition and his more recent work in the field of communities of practice.[1]
Wenger achieved a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Geneva, Switzerland, in 1982. He then studied at the University of California at Irvine in the United States, gaining an M.S. in Information and Computer Science in 1984 and a Ph.D. in the same subject area in 1990.[2]
Etienne Wenger holds that learning is an inherently social process and that it cannot be separated from the social context in which it happens.
Wenger was originally from Switzerland, but currently lives in California, USA. He is in the board of recommendation for KaosPilots Netherlands.
[edit] Bibliography
- Lave, Jean; Wenger, Etienne (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521423740.
- Wenger, Etienne (1998). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-66363-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=heBZpgYUKdAC.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Etienne C. Wenger CV, Biographical information.
- ^ Etienne C. Wenger, Toward a theory of cultural transparency: Elements of a social discourse of the visible and the invisible. PhD thesis, University of California at Irvine, USA.
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