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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity by Etienne Wenger (Paperback, 1999)

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Product Description : 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 groundbreaking 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

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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.