0. Forward

Connection: where good ideas book
Larger context of the book
What is this shift?
Book challenges reader to rethink what it means to understand
Community learning
Predictive contributions to social order
Legitimate peripheral practice
Modes of active problem solving vs rules and regulations
Mastery involves improvising
Ability to learn vs ability to perform
Breaking down roles example

1. Legitimate Peripheral Participation

What is legitimate peripheral learning
Newcomers and old timers
Becoming a full participant

From situated learning to legitimate peripheral participation

Craft apprenticeship in Goa
Learning vs social as primary
On full participation

With legitimate peripheral participation

Authors steer clear of schooling
LPP as a way of understanding learning

2. Practice, Person, Social World

Conventional explanations view learning as a process by which a learner internalizes knowledge, whether “discovered,” “transmitted” from others, or “experienced in interaction” with others.

Internalization of the cultural given

Conventional parts of learning

Participation in social practice

Learning as social practice
Marxist tradition
Theory of social practice

The person and identity in learning

Learning as constructing identities
Learning as evolving form of memberships

The social world

The social world
Newcomers vs old times in community of practice

3. Mid wives, Tailors, Quartermasters, Butchers, Nondrinking Alcoholics

Ethnographic studies of apprenticeships make this obvious

The Case of Apprenticeship

Foray into controversies surrounding apprenticeship model
Focus of the book

Five studies of apprenticeship

How AA helps shift identity

The Apprenticeship of Yucatec Midwives

Yucatec midwives apprentice

The apprenticeship of Vai and Gola tailors

Gola tailors apprenticeships

The apprenticeship of naval quartermasters

Navy quartermaster apprenticeship
Interlude on tools

The apprenticeship of meat cutters

Meat cutter apprenticeships
Gaining legitimacy in apprenticeships- Nat situation at work? [LONG toggle]

The apprenticeship of nondrinking alcoholics

On AA apprenticeships
On reconstructing of identity at A.A.

Apprenticeship and situated learning: a new agenda

On information flow
On mastery
On unpaid internships?
Learning resources in community
Becker more on access

4. Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Communities of Practice

Overview of the chapter

Structuring resources for learning in practice

Roles of masters is variable
Sponsorship into a community of practice and conferring legitmacy
Practice of the community creates a curriculum
Structure in apprenticeships
Peer learning
Hot take: decentered view of master-apprentice relations

The place of knowledge: participation, learning curricula, communities of practice

Social relations influence learning
On extended period of periphery
Tell Nat
Learning curriculum vs teaching curriculum
Concept of community
Chapter summary

The problem of access: transparency and sequestration

On access (connection: Lants migration ideas)
On technology
But her trade school experience od reduced access

Discourse and practice

Language in learning
War stories in copy repair trade

Motivation and identity: effects of participation

On identity and motivation
Intrinsic rewards vs becoming a part of this community
On didactic caretakers
Identity

Contradictions and change: continuity and displacement

Shifting identities in communities of practice