Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and IdentityPresents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. |
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... talk about it does make a difference . An adequate vocabulary is important because the concepts we use to make sense of the world di- rect both our perception and our actions . We pay attention to what we expect to see , we hear what we ...
... talk about it does make a difference . An adequate vocabulary is important because the concepts we use to make sense of the world di- rect both our perception and our actions . We pay attention to what we expect to see , we hear what we ...
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... talk about this with her ex - husband . After a long struggle , Ariel put the person on hold , just to take a breath . She was so angry , her body was shaking . She ended up transferring the call to her supervisor because the ...
... talk about this with her ex - husband . After a long struggle , Ariel put the person on hold , just to take a breath . She was so angry , her body was shaking . She ended up transferring the call to her supervisor because the ...
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... talks , however , she does not interrupt her work immediately , but holds the phone with her shoulder and keeps process- ing the current claim . Thanks for calling Alinsu Insurance Company . Can I help Vignette I : Welcome to claims ...
... talks , however , she does not interrupt her work immediately , but holds the phone with her shoulder and keeps process- ing the current claim . Thanks for calling Alinsu Insurance Company . Can I help Vignette I : Welcome to claims ...
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... min- utes and Joan wonders whether the cake - cutting part of the meeting must be considered morning break . There is some discreet talk about the issue , but the question is never posed directly 26 Prologue : Contexts.
... min- utes and Joan wonders whether the cake - cutting part of the meeting must be considered morning break . There is some discreet talk about the issue , but the question is never posed directly 26 Prologue : Contexts.
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... talk with the office manager , but Ariel does not even know who he is . She knows so little about the home office . The visitors are important clients who represent a large case with over 20,000 " lives . " The office looks pretty good ...
... talk with the office manager , but Ariel does not even know who he is . She knows so little about the home office . The visitors are important clients who represent a large case with over 20,000 " lives . " The office looks pretty good ...
Contents
Meaning | 51 |
Negotiation of meaning | 52 |
Participation | 55 |
Reification | 57 |
The duality of meaning | 62 |
Community | 72 |
Mutual engagement | 73 |
Joint enterprise | 77 |
Engagement | 174 |
Imagination | 175 |
Alignment | 178 |
Belonging and communities | 181 |
The work of belonging | 183 |
Identification and negotiability | 188 |
Identification | 191 |
Negotiability | 197 |
Shared repertoire | 82 |
Negotiating meaning in practice | 84 |
Learning | 86 |
The dual constitution of histories | 87 |
Histories of learning | 93 |
Generational discontinuities | 99 |
Boundary | 103 |
The duality of boundary relations | 104 |
Practice as connection | 113 |
The landscape of practice | 118 |
Locality | 122 |
Constellations of practices | 126 |
The local and the global | 131 |
Knowing in practice | 134 |
Identity | 143 |
A focus on identity | 145 |
Some assumptions to avoid | 146 |
Structure of Part II | 147 |
Identity in practice | 149 |
participation and reification | 150 |
Community membership | 152 |
Trajectories | 153 |
Nexus of multimembership | 158 |
Localglobal interplay | 161 |
Participation and nonparticipation | 164 |
Identities of nonparticipation | 165 |
Sources of participation and nonparticipation | 167 |
Institutional nonparticipation | 169 |
Modes of belonging | 173 |
The dual nature of identity | 207 |
Social ecologies of identity | 211 |
Learning communities | 214 |
Epilogue Design | 223 |
Design for learning | 225 |
Design and practice | 228 |
Structure of the Epilogue | 229 |
Learning architectures | 230 |
Dimensions | 231 |
Components | 236 |
A design framework | 239 |
Organizations | 241 |
Dimensions of organizational design | 242 |
Organization learning and practice | 249 |
Organizational engagement | 250 |
Organizational imagination | 257 |
Organizational alignment | 260 |
Education | 263 |
Dimensions of educational design | 264 |
a learning architecture | 270 |
Educational engagement | 271 |
Educational imagination | 272 |
Educational alignment | 273 |
Educational resources | 275 |
Notes | 279 |
Bibliography | 301 |
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Page 47 - It is in this sense that they constitute a community of practice. The concept of practice connotes doing, but not just doing in and of itself. It is doing in a historical and social context that gives structure and meaning to what we do.
Page 4 - Such participation shapes not only what we do, but also who we are and how we interpret what we do.
Page 3 - ... and inevitable, and that - given a chance - we are quite good at it? And what if, in addition, we assumed that learning is, in its essence, a fundamentally social phenomenon, reflecting our own deeply social nature as human beings capable of knowing?
Page 4 - Participation here refers not just to local events of engagement in certain activities with certain people, but to a more encompassing process of being active participants in the practices of social communities and constructing identities in relation to these communities.