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learning_theories:communities_of_practice [2011/05/19 10:49] jpetrovic [What are communities of practice?] |
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| * **Practice** - Members of the community of practice practice the knowledge they share among themselves. | * **Practice** - Members of the community of practice practice the knowledge they share among themselves. | ||
| - | Size, formality and meeting frequency of a community of practice can vary. New members may join a community of practice and existing members can leave. | + | Size, formality and meeting frequency of a community of practice can vary. New members may join a community of practice and existing members can leave. Also, a community of practice cannot be created since this would mean forcing individuals to develop an interest for a specific domain and interact with each other to exchange and develop knowledge about the subject. Still, what can be done is to **facilitate emergence** of a community of practice and support it. |
| Some other important characteristics of a community of practice are(([[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lls007/Radio4/Articles/wenger2000.pdf|Wenger, E. Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization 7, no. 2: 225. 2000.]])): | Some other important characteristics of a community of practice are(([[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lls007/Radio4/Articles/wenger2000.pdf|Wenger, E. Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization 7, no. 2: 225. 2000.]])): | ||
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| ===== Criticisms ===== | ===== Criticisms ===== | ||
| + | Communities of practice are, depending on the point of view on them, subjected to different criticisms. Some of them, identified by Roberts(([[http://northumbria.academia.edu/JoanneRoberts/Papers/323719/Limits_to_Communities_of_Practice|Roberts, Joanne. Limits to Communities of Practice. Journal of management studies 43, no. 3: 623-639. 2006.]])), are: | ||
| + | * **Power** - No matter if its source is a hierarchical position in an organization and thereby in a community of practice or length of participation in the community, members with greater power will have a greater influence in negotiating meaning possibly leaving new members on the periphery of the community. | ||
| + | * **Trust** - Members of a community of practice might be unwilling to share their knowledge without feeling of trust in other members. | ||
| + | * **Predispositions** - A community of practice may become inert in changing its views and practices. | ||
| ===== Keywords and most important names ===== | ===== Keywords and most important names ===== | ||
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| ===== Read more ===== | ===== Read more ===== | ||
| - | [[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lls007/Radio4/Articles/wenger2000.pdf|Wenger, E. Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization 7, no. 2 : 225. 2000.]] | + | [[http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~lls007/Radio4/Articles/wenger2000.pdf|Wenger, E. Communities of practice and social learning systems. Organization 7, no. 2: 225-246. 2000.]] |
| [[http://books.google.com/books?id=CAVIOrW3vYAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false|Lave, Jean, and Etienne Wenger. Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press, 1991.]] | [[http://books.google.com/books?id=CAVIOrW3vYAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false|Lave, Jean, and Etienne Wenger. Situated learning: legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press, 1991.]] | ||
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