Positive Psychology: Situated Learning

What is the theory of situated learning?
Situated learning occurs when one learns how to act within a new group. These "communities of practice" share a common goal, a skill set, and mutual engagement with the community. The community persists of people with full participation, or competent masters, and people who are legitimate peripheral participants, or novices. Each of us participate in communities of practice. As students, we all participate in the college student community. We all have a basic skill set for learning new material and handling college life. The masters are juniors and seniors who know how to handle everything, while the novices are new freshmen. There are also those who are excluded from the community, or who chose not to go to college.