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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

By Etienne Wenger

ISBN: 9780521430173

Published: 1998

Number of Pages: 342

Edition: 1st

Binding: Hardcover


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Product Type: Book

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.


Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  98202423
   - LC control Number: 98202423

International Standard Book Number: 0521430178

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: HD58.82
   - Item number: .W45 1998

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Wenger, Etienne,
   - Dates associated with a name: 1952-

Title Statement
   - Title: Communities of practice :
   - Title: Communities of practice : learning, meaning, and identity /
   - Remainder of title: learning, meaning, and identity /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Etienne Wenger
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Etienne Wenger.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge, [England] :
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Cambridge, U.K. ;
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: New York, N.Y. :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Cambridge University Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 1998.
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1998
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: c1998.

Physical Description
   - Extent: 318 p. :
   - Extent: xv, 318 p. :
   - Other physical details: ill. ;
   - Dimensions: 23 cm.
   - Dimensions: 24 cm
   - Dimensions: 24 cm.

Series Statement/Added Entry - Title: Learning in doingLearning in doing.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-307) and index
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-307) and index.
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Organizational learning
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Organizational learning.
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Social learning
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Social learning.

Added Entry - Corporate Name
   - Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element: Institute for Research on learning.


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