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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... architectures Dimensions Components A design framework Chapter 11: Organizations Dimensions of organizational design Organization, learning, and practice Organizational engagement Organizational imagination Organizational alignment ...
... architectures Dimensions Components A design framework Chapter 11: Organizations Dimensions of organizational design Organization, learning, and practice Organizational engagement Organizational imagination Organizational alignment ...
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For organizations, it means that learning is an issue of sustaining the interconnected communities of practice through which an organization knows what it knows and thus becomes effective and valuable as an organization.
For organizations, it means that learning is an issue of sustaining the interconnected communities of practice through which an organization knows what it knows and thus becomes effective and valuable as an organization.
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Similarly, if we believe that productive people in organizations are the diligent implementors of organizational processes and that the key to organizational performance is therefore the definition of increasingly more efficient and ...
Similarly, if we believe that productive people in organizations are the diligent implementors of organizational processes and that the key to organizational performance is therefore the definition of increasingly more efficient and ...
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others) in our relationships, our communities, and our organizations. In this spirit, this book is written with both the theoretician and the practitioner in mind. Intellectual context Because I am trying to serve multiple audiences, ...
others) in our relationships, our communities, and our organizations. In this spirit, this book is written with both the theoretician and the practitioner in mind. Intellectual context Because I am trying to serve multiple audiences, ...
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Theories of collectivity address the formation of social configurations of various types, from the local (families, communities, groups, networks) to the global (states, social classes, associations, social movements, organizations).
Theories of collectivity address the formation of social configurations of various types, from the local (families, communities, groups, networks) to the global (states, social classes, associations, social movements, organizations).
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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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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity Etienne Wenger Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
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