“We all belong to communities of practice… in fact communities of practice are everywhere” (Wenger1998, 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 ...
This chapter draws on the concept of communities of practice as described by Wenger (Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998; Communities of practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept. In: C Blackmore (ed) Social ...
For a more precise definition, see our theory page on communities of practice: Page on communities of practice For a bit more info, see our general (but brief) introduction to communities of practice and their use in various contexts: Introduction to communities of practice For practical advi...
For Lave and Wenger, communities of practice described groups of people who take part in collective learning where each individual shares their knowledge with the others in the group. Their community of practice theory was rooted in the concept of social learning and it was soon expanded from app...
Wenger suggests that professional practice is a social process that is constructed in communities. Mentoring in Initial Teacher Education (ITE) has been a feature of the ITE landscape since the advent of the internship schemes but might be viewed by many teachers acting as mentors to be a small...
The concept of a community of practice (CoP) was codified in Etienne Wenger-Trayner’s 1998 book,Communities of Practice.From theWenger-Trayners' website: A community of practice is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do, and learn how to do it better...
The term “Communities of Practice” (CoP) was first mentioned by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger in 1991. Both describe CoP as “… groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.” (Etienne Wen...
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...
Use of the analytical framework of Communities of Practice (Wenger, 1998) can address this oversight, but it pays insufficient attention to the dynamic processes by which people interact and make meaning of their interactions. The paper concludes that combining existing theories of power with the ...
This article presents empirical research exploring adult students' transition to higher education (HE) through a program designed to enable that transition. Wenger's Communities of Practice theory has been applied to informal adult learning by Merriam, Courtenay, and Baumgartner (2003), who suggested ...