Communities of practice - The Diigo Meta page

• 17 Jun 09
  

  Christy Tucker

  Introduction to communities of practice by Etienne Wenger

  community education plc

  • Communities of practice are 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.

  • The perspective of communities of practice affects educational practices
    along three dimensions:

    
    
    • Internally: How to organize educational experiences that ground school
      learning in practice through participation in communities around subject
      matters?
    • Externally: How to connect the experience of students to actual
      practice through peripheral forms of participation in broader communities
      beyond the walls of the school?
    • Over the lifetime of students: How to serve the lifelong learning
      needs of students by organizing communities of practice focused on topics of
      continuing interest to students beyond the initial schooling period?
    
    
    
    

    From this perspective, the school is not the privileged locus of learning. It
    is not a self-contained, closed world in which students acquire knowledge to be
    applied outside, but a part of a broader learning system.

• 23 May 07
  

  sdesaille

  sociology

• 12 Apr 06
  

  Paul Left

  community wenger

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