Bernhard Schieber

Legitimate Peripheral Participation

Knowledge

Legitimate Peripheral Participation concerns learning through recognised access to a practice. Newcomers engage with people, artifacts, and real work. A peripheral position can remain legitimate; the diagnostic question is whether it permits meaningful involvement and learning or instead conceals blocked access.

What these mean

Editorial orientation · Family

Model

In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.

Editorial orientation · Category

Theories & Explanatory Models

Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.

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