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Beyond Communities of Practice

Beyond Communities of Practice

Barton, David
Tusting, Karin

Hardcover

Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Persp

LinguisticsGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521836433
ISBN13: 9780521836432
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 3 2005
Pages: 258
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.70 Depth: 9.28
Language: English
The concept of communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become influential in education, management, and social sciences in recent years. This volume emphasizes the significance of language, power, and social context in understanding how communities of practice work. Domains of empirical research reported include schools, police stations, adult basic education, higher education and multilingual settings. The relationship between communities of practice and literacy studies, critical language studies, the ethnography of communication, socio-cultural activity theory, and sociological theories of risk is also evaluated.

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