Strategies and Implication of Situated Learning: An Overview

Situated cognition is a theory of instruction that suggests learning is naturally tied to authentic activity, context, and culture. Situated cognition or learning is a concept advocated in social constructivist approaches and is a natural extension of the importance attached to the context, social and cultural, in which learning is believed to be born Jean Lave (1988) is often credited with starting the situated cognition movement, although its ideals are not new. John Dewey and Lev Vygotsky both advocated similar approaches for situated learning. Present paper deals with situated learning, strategies of situated learning and their implications.