Communities of Practice : Learning, Meaning, and Identity

Name: Communities of Practice
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521663632
Price: 7700 KES
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ISBN: 9780521663632

by Etienne Wenger

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives

ISBN-10 0521663636

ISBN-13 9780521663632

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 28th, 1999

Print length 336 Pages

Weight 508 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.40 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Anthropology Psychology

KSh 7,700.00

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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.

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.

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