ISBN:
9780415364737
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (196 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Print version Communities of Practice : Critical Perspectives
DDC:
302.35
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
This benchmark text provides an accessible yet critical introduction to the theory and application of communities of practice and their use in a diverse range of managerial and professional contexts, from education to human resource development. This book charts the development of the idea of communities of practice and explores the key relationship between learning and identity among:newcomers and 'old timers'male and female workersthe low skilled and the high skilledprofessionals and managersadults and adolescents
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Communities of Practice: Critical perspectives; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: Communities of practice: a contested concept in flux; 2 Critiquing theories of learning and communities of practice; 3 Lost in translation: communities of practice: The journey from academic model to practitioner tool; 4 From communities of practice to mycorrhizae; 5 Including the missing subject: Placing the personal within the community; 6 Cultivating network analysis: Rethinking the concept of 'community' within 'communities of practice'
Description / Table of Contents:
7 Theorizing sport as a community of practice: The coach-athlete relationship in British professional basketball8 The transition to work and adulthood: Becoming adults via communities of practice; 9 English apprenticeship from past to present: The challenges and consequences of rampant 'community' diversity; 10 Sexuality, gender and legitimate peripheral participation: An ethnographic study of a call center; 11 The learning trajectories of 'old-timers': Academic identities and communities of practice in higher education
Description / Table of Contents:
12 Unemployment as a community of practice: Tales of survival in the new Germany13 Communities of practice in their place: Some implications of changes in the spatial location of work; 14 Conclusion: Further developments and unresolved issues; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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