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The chapter extends Lave and Wenger’s Legitimate Peripheral Participation concept to Higher Education and intends to review the concept of LPP by placing the role of novices and technical materiality at the heart of practice-based learning. A narrated description of the events observed in the lab shall attempt to show how a novice learns through practice and with others (both human and non-human), emphasizing the idea that in Higher Education too, and particularly in the passage from the lecture hall to the laboratory practice-based learning is situated, socio-material and participated. The pedagogy of practice, activated in the scientific laboratory context fosters the co-existence of learning practices and academic interests, producing tension between codified knowledge and unstable expertise in evolution, between the procedural standards and artisan skills incorporated by both novices and experts. Only by integrating these two types of knowledge can a robust university training and qualification be achieved.
A different version of this paper it was published in the 2012 (Viteritti A. “Sociomaterial Assemblages in learning scientific practice: Margherita’s first PCR ” in TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/article/view/91). Now, in this new version I would to explore some different elements that permit a re-conceptualization of learning and in particular the role of LPP in Higher Education.
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The Polymerase Chain Reaction, commonly conveyed by the acronym PCR, is a molecular biology technique which allows fragments of nucleic acids from DNA to be amplified. Amplifying using PCR allows scientists to obtain the quantity of genetic material necessary for successive applications and experiments very rapidly in vitro. The technique was invented in 1983 by Kary B. Mulis, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for this in 1993.
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Viteritti, A. (2015). Practice-Based Learning of Novices in Higher Education: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) Revisited. In: Kennedy, M., Billett, S., Gherardi, S., Grealish, L. (eds) Practice-based Learning in Higher Education. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9502-9_9
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