Communities of Practice

By M. Denscombe. 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Management Science and Operations Research

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“Vygotsky’s Neglected Legacy”: Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (2007, background): “During the pursuit of the object, subjects not only produce outcomes but also produce|reproduce themselves (Wenger, 1998).”
Conceptualizing the Learning Process in SMEs (2006, background): “It is now widely acknowledged among social scientists that earlier theories failed to account for the social, historical and cultural context in which people learn (Brown and Duguid, 1991; Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998).”
The potential of virtual tourism in the recovery of tourism industry during the COVID-19 pandemic (2021, methodology): “The mixed-methods approach has emerged as a ‘third paradigm’ (Denscombe, 2008), which allows us to provide a complete picture and better understanding of the role of virtual tourism by taking a consideration of the qualitative-quantitative complementarity (Fleckenstein et al., 2020; MolinaAzorín &…”
Engineering Identity Development Among Pre‐Adolescent Learners (2012, background): “Several important elements of identity include (1) a sense of personal sameness or continuity over time and across situations; (2) a commitment to certain self-representations as self-defining; (3) a commitment to certain roles as self-defining; and (4) a commitment to a set of core values and ideal”
Teacher Research and the Problem of Practice (2009, background): “When teachers work together as colleagues (Wenger, 1998) in focused, collaborative inquiry (Hiebert et al.”
The other side of the story: towards a narrative analysis of narratives-in-interaction (2006, background): “In this respect, we can talk about two communities of practice (Wenger, 1998)9 resulting from sustained (face-toface and mediated) interaction over a number of years and yielding a repertoire of shared discourse and social activities, resources, and understandings of them.”
Knowledge Worker Roles and Actions— Results of Two Empirical Studies (2011, background): “As Wenger (1998) pointed out, practice is the source of coherence of a community because of mutual engagement, joint enterprise, and shared repertoire.”
Why students drop out CS1 course? (2006, background): “The theory of learning communities [15, 26], the theory of social constructivism [25, 10], and experiential learning theories [7, 14] all stress the social factor of learning process.”
Repositioning English and multilingualism in English as a Lingua Franca (2015, background): “The third reason for proposing a retheorisation relates to ELF's (i.e. 'ELF 2') approach to the composition of/kinds of language used by ELF 'communities' framed as 'communities of practice', or CoPs (Wenger 1998).”