Jean Lave
Social anthropologist whose source-backed profile and coauthored work 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
Jean Lave is a social anthropologist whose documented work examines learning, everyday life, and social practice. This page limits its account to the cited profile and the coauthored corpus source.
Academic positioning
Social anthropology · Scholar of learning and social practice
Relationship to Syntag theories
- Communities of Practice — Key contributor: With Etienne Wenger, Lave coauthored the corpus source for legitimate peripheral participation; Syntag treats this as a bounded contribution rather than sole ownership of Communities of Practice.
Representative works and contributions
- Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation — The coauthored corpus source for situated learning and legitimate peripheral participation.
Influence, development, critique, or collaboration
- collaboration: The Cambridge record documents Lave and Wenger as coauthors of Situated Learning; it establishes coauthorship of this work only.
Attribution boundary
- Do not describe Lave as the sole founder of Communities of Practice or all situated-learning scholarship.
- Do not infer a relationship with Wenger beyond the documented coauthored work.
Reading path
- Situated Learning — Start with the documented coauthored source for legitimate peripheral participation.
- Communities of Practice — Distinguish Wenger's later formulation from the 1991 coauthored work.
- 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 record identify Lave and the cited coauthored work. — Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition. Jean Lave 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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