Situated learning

• Perhaps most canonically represented by Situated Learning - Lave and Wenger
• Expressed more moderately in The Reflective Practitioner - Donald Schön
• Allied educational philosophies / methods: Constructivism (esp. radical constructivism), Anchored instruction, Cognitive apprenticeship
• Criticism
  • John Anderson / Reder / Herb Simon anti-situationist/Constructivism flame war:
  • Anderson et al. - 1995 - Applications and Misapplications of Cognitive Psychology to Mathematics Education
  • Anderson et al. - 1996 - Situated Learning and Education
  • Greeno - 1997 - On Claims That Answer the Wrong Questions
  • Anderson et al. - 1997 - Situative Versus Cognitive Perspectives
  • Anderson et al. - 1998 - Radical Constructivism and Cognitive Psychology
  • Kirschner et al. - 2006 - Why Minimal Guidance During Instruction Does Not Work
• Observations
  • Some activities (piano, cooking) offer a situated venue for targeted practice activities
  • Enabling environments focus on doing what’s enabled