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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.
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- 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?
The perspective of communities of practice affects educational practices along three dimensions:
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.
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