The concept of community of practice was not born in the. Communities of practice communities of practice cops are groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an ongoing basis. Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor. Communities of practice as a social theory of learning. Occupational therapy month school backpack awareness day hill day older driver safety.
Communities of practice and social learning systems. Lave and wenger first used the term communities of practice to describe learning. Arnold schwarzenegger this speech broke the internet and most inspiring speech it changed my life. Communities of practice cops the term community of practice was coined by etienne wenger and jean lave in the early 1990s to describe a group of people who share a concern, a set of problems or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise by interacting. We focus on developing welldesigned, uptodate products that you can rely upon during your frequent travels. For example, when a company reorganizes into a teambased structure, employees with functional expertise may create communities of practice as a way of maintaining connections with peers. In 1998, the theorist etienne wenger extended the concept and applied it to other domains, such as organizations 2. A community of practice cop is a group of people who share a craft or a profession. The term was first used in 1991 by theorists jean lave and etienne wenger who discussed the notion of legitimate peripheral participation 1. The term community of practice is of relatively recent coinage, even though the phenomenon it.
Many members sewed the logo to their backpacks to show off. Members of a community of practice are practitioners. A group of internal auditors in the public sector from different countries in. He is now an independent consultant specializing in developing communities of practice within organizations. Introduction to communities of practice, wengertrayner. Lave and wenger have proposed that learning is situated and occurs by means of legitimate peripheral participation within a community of practice, in contrast with conventional schools which are based upon the assumption that knowledge can be decontextualized. Lave, jean and wenger, etienne 1991 situated learning. Article information, pdf download for communities of practice and social learning. Their model of situated learning proposed that learning involved a process of engagement in a community of practice.
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