Situated cognition, who’s best known theorist is John Seely Brown, focuses on how knowledge is embedded in the activity, context, and culture in which it was learned (Brown, Collins & Duguid, 1989).
he concept of situated cognition resonates well with experiential learning, but goes further to stress the integral nature of the situation in which the learning activity takes place, where the situation itself co-produces knowledge through activity (Brown, Collins & Duguid, 1989). We might also see some links with situated learning and distributed cognition (Henning, 2004).