Table 1 Contrasts between acquisition and participation models of learning (after Sfard, 1998)
From: Mobile technology supporting trainee doctors’ workplace learning and patient care: an evaluation
Acquisition | Participation | |
|---|---|---|
Goal of learning | Individual enrichment | Community building |
Learning | Acquisition of something | Becoming a participant |
Student | Recipient (consumer), re-constructor | Peripheral participant, apprentice |
Teacher | Provider, facilitator, mediator | Expert participant, preserver of practice/discourse |
Knowledge, concept | Property, possession, commodity | Aspects of practice/discourse/activity |
Knowing | Having, possessing | Belonging, participating, communicating |