Communities of Practice - Learning, Meaning and Identity

Klappentext Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. Zusammenfassung This book presents a new social theory of learning. As learning becomes a topic of great urgency for nations! businesses! and schools! Communities of Practice presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; Part I. Practice: Introduction I; 1. Meaning; 2. Community; 3. Learning; 4. Boundary; 5. Locality; Coda I. Knowing in practice; Part II. Identity: Introduction II; 6. Identity in practice; 7. Participation and non-participation; 8. Modes of belonging; 9. Identification and negotiability; Coda II. Learning communities; Conclusion: Introduction III; 10. Learning architectures; 11. Organizations; 12. Education; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Etienne Wenger
• Assisted by: John Seely Brown (Editor), Roy Pea (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.01.2000
• EAN: 9780521663632
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66363-2
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives; Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management