Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Plans and situated actions: the problem of human-machine communication
Alone but Together: Adult Distance Study through Computer Conferencing
Alone but Together: Adult Distance Study through Computer Conferencing
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This paper explores the idea of situated learning and the related idea of a community of practice. These ideas have had a seminal influence in the CSCL community, yet they have received little serious attention in refining their use. This paper uses material from a recently completed piece of research to reflect on the educational (mis)use of the idea of situation. It argues that the view of situation popularized in the works of John Seely Brown and others contains a moral imperative. It maintains that a better understanding of situation might be achieved by adopting a stance that does not privilege a certain type of situation above others.This paper states a case for abstraction and formalization as forming part of the resources from which a community constitutes itself. In this way it resituates learning as both a participation in a community and a transmission of resources.