Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: Communities Of Practice Learning Meaning And Identity
Author(s): Wenger Etienne
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9780521663632
Pages: 336 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 9/28/1999
Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Category: Psychology