Communities of practice Learning, meaning, and identity.pdf 热度: knowing and learning about science in primary school 'communities of science practice' the views of participating scientists in the myscience initiative 热度: BOOKREVIEW Wenger,E.(1998).Communitiesofpractice:Learning,meaningand ...
Communities of practice can be formed to support social learning in any shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems, a clique of pupils defining their identity in the school,...
Wenger believes that communities of practice are key to understanding the complex knowledge challenges faced by most organizations in today's knowledge economy. To that end, Wenger sets the boundaries of what constitutes a community of practice and how it resides within different types of ...
EtienneWenger Theterm"communityofpractice"isofrelativelyrecentcoinage,even thoughthephenomenonitreferstoisage-old.Theconcepthasturned outtoprovideausefulperspectiveonknowingandlearning.Agrowing numberofpeopleandorganizationsinvarioussectorsarenowfocusing oncommunitiesofpracticeasakeytoimprovingtheirperformance. Thisbrief...
According to Etienne Wenger, communities of practice are groups of people who share a passion for something they do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better. Communities of practice define themselves along three dimensions: what they are about, how they function, and what capabili...
What do communities of practice look like? Communities develop their practice through a variety of activities. The following table provides a few typical examples: Problem solving “Can we work on this design and brainstorm some ideas; I’m stuck.” ...
Although being essentially a descriptive social theory, the communities of practice (CoP) idea has been frequently employed to guide instructional design, in particular the design of online learning communities. The chapter sets out by relating CoP as developed by Lave and Wenger (1991) to socio-...
Communities of Practice The term was first used in 1991 by theorists Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger who discussed the notion of legitimate peripheral participation[1]. In 1998, the theorist Etienne Wenger extended the concept and applied it to other domains, such as organizations[2]. With the flo...
Communities of Practice: The Organizational FrontierEtienne C. WengerWilliam M. Snyder
A2: Communities of Practice Readings - Wenger, Seely-BrownLobb, A