Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
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Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation.
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7 released booksLearning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives
Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives is a 7-book series with 7 released primary works first released in 1991 with contributions by Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger, and Gordon Wells.
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This book provides an in-depth qualitative data analysis about Wenger's research with “communities of practice,” or groups of people that form around collective, sustained tasks.
This is an important book for anyone interested in group-formation or identity co-constituted from within the self and as a member of different groups.