Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger (Engl

Description: Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book presents a theory of learning that starts with the assumption that engagement in social practice is the fundamental process by which we get to know what we know and by which we become who we are. The primary unit of analysis of this process is neither the individual nor social institutions, but the informal communities of practice that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time. To give a social account of learning, the theory explores in a systematic way the intersection of issues of community, social practice, meaning, and identity. The result is a broad framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. This ambitious but thoroughly accessible framework has relevance for the practitioner as well as the theoretician, presented with all the breadth, depth, and rigor necessary to address such a complex and yet profoundly human topic. Author Biography Wenger-Institute for Research on Learning, Menlo Park Table of Contents 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. Review Wengers book is stimulating, insightful, and challenging. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education "The terms of debate about knowledge management and learning organizations are slowly, and finally turning from issues of information and technology to those of human capabilities and the sources of motivation, creativity, and problem-solving skills that create real value in the new economy. Wenger is light years ahead in understanding those sources, and the critical importance of informal communities and social learning in fostering them." Phillip Brook Manville, Partner, McKinsey & Co. Review Quote Wengers book is stimulating, insightful, and challenging.Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education Promotional "Headline" Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation. Description for Bookstore 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. Description for Library 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. Details ISBN0521663636 Author Etienne Wenger Short Title COMMUNITIES OF PRAC Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Learning in Doing Language English ISBN-10 0521663636 ISBN-13 9780521663632 Media Book Format Paperback Year 1998 Publication Date 1998-01-31 Imprint Cambridge University Press Subtitle Learning, Meaning, and Identity Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Edition 1st Birth 1952 Pages 336 Residence US DEWEY 303.324 DOI 10.1604/9780521663632 Audience Professional and Scholarly UK Release Date 1999-09-28 AU Release Date 1999-09-28 NZ Release Date 1999-09-28 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises; Worked examples or Exercises We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168634563;

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