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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet...more
Paperback, 336 pages
Published
September 28th 1999
by Cambridge University Press
(first published 1998)
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Sep 01, 2009
Guida Allès
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Recomendado por Dolors REig en EL CAPARAZÓN. Copio-pego sus palabras: Y entonces, la gente empezó a mostrarse social, a mostrar, compartiendo, la felicidad por haber encontrado su lugar en el mundo” podría ser una frase cualquiera en un futuro libro sobre Internet y lo humano…, si me perdonáis la licencia poética.
This book provides an in-depth qualitative data analysis about Wenger's research with "communities of practice," or groups of people that form around collective, sustained tasks.
This is an important book for anyone interested in group-formation or identity co-constituted from within the self and as a member of different groups.
This is an important book for anyone interested in group-formation or identity co-constituted from within the self and as a member of different groups.
Een geweldig boek waardoor je op een heel nieuwe manier gaat kijken naar de organisatiestructuur.
Wanneer leren mensen van elkaar? Wat stelt mensen in staat om van elkaar te leren? Een theorie over social learning. Het boek is in het begin misschien verwarrend, maar voor mij is dat een teken dat er nieuwe inzichten ontstaan!
Wanneer leren mensen van elkaar? Wat stelt mensen in staat om van elkaar te leren? Een theorie over social learning. Het boek is in het begin misschien verwarrend, maar voor mij is dat een teken dat er nieuwe inzichten ontstaan!
Powerful book for understanding how groups of people with shared interests learn and innovate.
I wrote an article inspired by a part of that book:
Boundaries and peripheries
http://www.connected.org/learn/bounda...
I wrote an article inspired by a part of that book:
Boundaries and peripheries
http://www.connected.org/learn/bounda...
Jan 10, 2011
Jess Haggerty
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So far, this book has been very interesting in detailing how people who share the same interests or enact the same experiences come together to form communities. It is also interesting to see how being a member of a community of practice has an effect on identity.
Valuable book for educators about social learning and the ways individuals are embedded in "communities of practice" that foster learning and pass on values. Excellent read.
I read this twice while completing various courses in graduate school. I hated it the first time around, but the second time I read it was in a much more meaningful context. The idea that organizations are really just made up of many communities of practice really hit home for me the second time around and since I've been able to see examples of this clearly illustrated in both my professional (I work in education) and personal life.
So far, it seems like an insightful study of how certain communities cohere around common practices and how unique and flexible meanings are negotiated within these communities. I'm only about half way through.
How in the world does a book get a average 5.64 rating out of a possible 5?
Wenger introduces an important theoretical construct with this book, which focuses on the hidden influence of cohesive groups bound by their common activities. Primarily for the education audience, he focuses on organizational learning and the development of local expertise through CoP. This is generally for an academic audience.
Oct 14, 2008
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