"We all belong to communities of practice...in fact communities of practice are everywhere" (Wenger 1998, p. 6). A Community of Practice (CoP) is a group of people who share similar challenges, interact regularly, learn from and with each other, and improve their ability to address their...
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Methods: Theoretical study through nonsystematic literature reviews the theme of "Communities of Practice" in the work of social researchers Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, who developed this concept, completed with studies on the same topic from the research in online databases. Results: A CP is ...
Communities of Practice (CoPs) are groups of people who come together to share their practice and learn with and from each other. They are united by a domain or joint enterprise and a shared concern. As they continue to meet, their knowledge deepens and
This chapter is based on the notion that Lave and Wenger (1991) and Wenger (1998) work with similar, although characteristically different concepts of 'community of practice' and our goal is to compare and contrast these. We point out the relative strengths and weaknesses of each, illustrating...
If you think back to the original community of practice theory put forward by Wenger and Lave, apprenticeships aren’t just about having a shared interest and a community – they are also working towards improving members’ understanding and abilities in their field. ...
The five subscales of the 18-item PLCS are shared and supportive leadership (SSL, four items), shared values and vision (SVV, four items), collective learning and application (CLA, four items), shared personal practice (SPP, three items), and supportive conditions (SC, three items) (Olivi...
(See Figure 1). OLC is necessarily grounded in the social learning process. The Office of Learning Technologies‘ (1998) four elements (community, network, learning, and technology) of OLC are related to Tu and Corry‘s (Tu & Corry, 2002a) four constructs of OLC: Community of Practice (...
One possible limitation of Lave and Wenger’s community of practice framework is its tendency to reproduce, rather than renew or revolutionise. Lave and Wenger address this in observing that making an impact on the world is facilitated, “if a person is both a member of a community and an ...
The productive and political dimensions allow the community to manage the inner administration and the decision-making realm of the environment. Former approaches, such as that of communities of practice (Wenger 1998; Lave and Wenger 1991) understand the social processes of knowledge from an ...