Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and IdentityThis book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal 'communities of practice' that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic. |
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4) Meaning — our ability to experience the world and our engagement with it as meaningful — is ultimately what learning is to produce. As a reflection of these assumptions, the primary focus of this theory is on learning as social ...
4) Meaning — our ability to experience the world and our engagement with it as meaningful — is ultimately what learning is to produce. As a reflection of these assumptions, the primary focus of this theory is on learning as social ...
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There are times in our lives when learning is intensified: when situations shake our sense of familiarity, when we are challenged beyond our ability to respond, when we wish to engage in new practices and seek to join new communities.
There are times in our lives when learning is intensified: when situations shake our sense of familiarity, when we are challenged beyond our ability to respond, when we wish to engage in new practices and seek to join new communities.
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If you are not interested, skipping this section will not impair your ability to follow my argument. In an earlier book, anthropologist Jean Lave and I tried to distill — from a number of ethnographic studies of apprenticeship — what ...
If you are not interested, skipping this section will not impair your ability to follow my argument. In an earlier book, anthropologist Jean Lave and I tried to distill — from a number of ethnographic studies of apprenticeship — what ...
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Because this notion of meaning production has to do with our ability to “own” meanings, it involves issues of social participation and relations of power in fundamental ways. Indeed, many theories in this category have been concerned ...
Because this notion of meaning production has to do with our ability to “own” meanings, it involves issues of social participation and relations of power in fundamental ways. Indeed, many theories in this category have been concerned ...
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3) It requires a theory of power by which to characterize the formation of identity in practice as the ability to negotiate an experience of meaning. Part II thus complements Part I. It argues for a dual relation between practice and ...
3) It requires a theory of power by which to characterize the formation of identity in practice as the ability to negotiate an experience of meaning. Part II thus complements Part I. It argues for a dual relation between practice and ...
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Inhalt
The concept of practice | 2 |
Community | 15 |
Learning | 24 |
Boundary | 34 |
Locality | 46 |
Knowing in practice | i |
A focus on identity | ii |
Participation and nonparticipation | 7 |
Modes of belonging | 8 |
Identification and negotiability | |
Learning communities | |
Design for learning | |
Organizations | |
Education | |
Bibliography | |
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Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives |
| Autor/in | Etienne Wenger |
| Verlag | Cambridge University Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1107268370, 9781107268371 |
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