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Communities of practice Etienne Wenger Jean Lave. Community of Practice: Learning, meaning and identity (Wenger, 1998) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991). Theory of Learning. Situated Learning Applications as theory of knowledge management .
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Communities of practiceEtienne WengerJean Lave Community of Practice: Learning, meaning and identity (Wenger, 1998) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991)
Theory of Learning. • Situated Learning • Applications as theory of knowledge management
Learning is identity formation through social participation “Communities of practices are • groups of people (communities) who • share a concern or a passion (domain)for • something they do (practice) • and learn how to do it better • as they interact regularly.”
Why/how it seems relevant to my work? • Conceived from anthropological studies of apprenticeship as a learning model • Describes the fluid and dynamic nature of Informal learning communities (as seen in gaming, anime cons, MOOCS and unschooling) • The model applies to informal and formal communities • can bridge informal and formal learning • “learning is ubiquitous in ongoing activity, though often unrecognized as such” (Lave 1993: 5). • Embraced by workplace (business & government)
Questions /next steps • Vigotsky? • Where in the research cycle? • Descriptive (What’s Happening?) • Causal Relationship • Mechanism • Many different domains • 1070 hits for empirical studies published in 2013 • Time for metaanalysis for the theoretical claims?