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" 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... "
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity - Page 4
by Etienne Wenger - 1999 - 318 pages
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The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History

Alessandro Portelli - Social Science - 2010 - 682 pages
...PROCESSES Wenger's social theory of learning (1998) focuses on learning as social participation, as 'a process of being active participants in the practices...constructing identities in relation to these communities' (p. 4). Social participation, community building, development of identity, learning and knowing are...
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Personal Effectiveness: A Guide to Action

Diana Winstanley - Business & Economics - 2005 - 260 pages
...contexts. A community of practice (Wenger 1998: 4) focuses on 'learning as social participation' and 'being active participants in the practices of social communities and constructing identities with relation to these communities'. A community of practice is a social configuration in which we...
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Web Information Systems and Technologies: International Conferences WEBIST ...

Joaquim Filipe, José Cordeiro, Vitor Pedrosa - Computers - 2007 - 422 pages
...learning the principle focus is that of social participation (Wenger, 1998:4) where participation means "being active participants in the practices of social...constructing identities in relation to these communities." (ibid, italics in the original). Participation, according to Wenger, is the process of taking part...
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