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Etienne Wenger
Learning-theory scholar whose source-backed works support a bounded contribution to the Communities of Practice entry.
This page lists registered sources and editorial synthesis; claim-level review remains pending unless a source entry states otherwise.
Overview
Etienne Wenger is associated with learning-theory research on communities of practice. This page limits its claims to the cited university-hosted profile and the two documented corpus works.
Academic positioning
Learning theory · Scholar associated with Communities of Practice research
Relationship to Syntag theories
- Communities of Practice — Key contributor: Wenger coauthored the 1991 corpus source and authored the 1998 Communities of Practice source; this is a bounded contribution rather than a sole-founder claim.
Representative works and contributions
- Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation — The coauthored corpus source for legitimate peripheral participation.
- Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity — The corpus source for the social-participation formulation of Communities of Practice.
Influence, development, critique, or collaboration
- collaboration: The Cambridge record documents Wenger and Lave as coauthors of Situated Learning; it establishes coauthorship of this work only.
Attribution boundary
- Do not describe Wenger as the sole founder of Communities of Practice or collapse the 1991 coauthored work into a sole-author account.
- Do not infer an unlisted title, date, current affiliation, or personal relationship from the profile.
Reading path
- Situated Learning — Read the coauthored legitimate-peripheral-participation source first.
- Communities of Practice — Read the separate social-participation formulation.
- University-hosted profile — Check the limited academic-positioning claim.
Page source register
These sources are registered for this page and support editorial synthesis. This is not a claim-by-claim verification database.
- L3Sources listed · claim-level review pendingSources are listed, but claim-level review remains pending.The university profile and Cambridge records identify Wenger and the two cited works. — Open University of Catalonia. Etienne Wenger biographical profile.
- L2Editorial synthesisThis is an editorial synthesis rather than a primary-source fact.The key-contributor label and attribution boundary are bounded Syntag editorial synthesis.
- L3Sources listed · claim-level review pendingSources are listed, but claim-level review remains pending.Reading choices depend on the research question, access, and disciplinary guidance.
- L3Sources listed · claim-level review pendingSources are listed, but claim-level review remains pending.Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation. Cambridge University Press.
- L3Sources listed · claim-level review pendingSources are listed, but claim-level review remains pending.Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity. Cambridge University Press.
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