What is social learning?

What is social learning?

In social learning theory, learning is understood to be a chain of events involving people engaging with each other which leads to a change in something they care about. The most well known model of social learning is that of a ‘community of practice’, a term coined by Etienne Wenger and Jean Lave in the 1980’s in their research observing how traditional skills are taught and passed on in traditional West African societies.