“The theoretical view I will call situated social practice emphasizes the relational interdependence of agent and world, activity, meaning, cognition, learning, and knowing. It emphasizes the inherently socially negotiated quality of meaning and . . . also claims that learning, thinking, and knowing are relations among people engaged in, with, and arising from the socially and culturally structured world.” (p. 67)

Lave defines her theory of "situated social practice" by contrast with competing versions of situated cognition:

The social context is more than jsut (1) a secondary environmental constraint. Lave accepts (2) the hermeneutic view of negotiated meanings, but grounds that in (3) a concrete social reality. This provides a theoretical framework in which to analyze learning and critique alienated contemporary forms of learning.

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