Professor of Education and Geography, University of California, Berkley
Email: jlave@berkeley
Jean Lave is a social anthropologist with a strong interest in social theory. Much of her ethnographically-based research concentrates on the re-conceiving of learning, learners, and everyday life in terms of social practice. She has published three books on the subject: Understanding Practice (co-authored with S. Chaiklin, 1993); Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (with E. Wenger, 1991); and Cognition in Practice (1988). More recently her work has taken a historical turn with a collaborative, ethnohistorical research project, Producing Families, Trading in History on the British merchant families engaged in the port wine trade in Portugal — (History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities, 2000, edited with Dorothy Holland). She is currently finishing a book on apprenticeship in Liberia and changing research practice and continues to write about social practice theory.
Biography courtesy of UC Berkley School of Information
Selected Publications
- Estranged Labor Learning pt.1 (2002)
- Estranged Labor Learning pt.2 (2002)
- Social Constraints in Laboratory and Classroom Tasks (In Everyday Cognition: Its Development in Social Context, Newman, Griffin & Cole, 1984)
- What’s Special about Experiments as Contexts for Thinking (1980)
- Tailor-made Experiments and Evaluating the Intellectual Consequences of Apprenticeship Training (1977)
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