Situated Learning
Updated 2026-08-15
INTRODUCTION
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CORE DEFINITION
Situated learning holds that knowledge is acquired inside authentic or closely simulated practice, where the learner enters a community of practice through legitimate peripheral participation and gradually moves toward its center. The core proposition is that classroom knowledge tends to remain inert because it was never tied to a situation, and that placing learning in real tasks makes it usable. The key qualification is that learning by doing still requires structure and feedback, or it degrades into trial and error.
SCAFFOLDING EFFECT
Reduce cognitive load
- Embed In Real Tasks: place the learning inside work that actually matters to someone. - Enter At The Edge: begin with peripheral participation before taking full responsibility. - Apprentice And Review: absorb tacit knowledge from practitioners and debrief it.
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Knowledge is tied to the situations, tools, and social relations in which it was learned, which is why an abstraction taught in isolation stays inert. Participation supplies the cues and corrections that make the abstraction meaningful, and the community's norms carry the tacit parts no manual can write down.
MINIMUM ACTION
In progress 0/1Practice this model in one real situation:
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Source support: Explicit
- en.wikipedia.orghttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated_learningverified
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