Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9780415364744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 200 str.

Hughes, Jason

Opis

Offers an 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 is useful reading for students, researchers, p

Spis treści

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 ‘Community’ within Communities of Practice  7. Sport as a Community of Practice: The Coach-Athlete Relationship in British Professional Basketball  8. Becoming Adults via Communities of Practice: The Transition from Work to Adulthood  9. 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 Centre  11. The Learning Trajectories of Old-Timers: Academic Identities and Communities of Practice in Higher Education  12. Unemployment as a Community of Practice: Tales of Survival in the New Germany  13. Putting Virtual Communities of Practice in their Place: Changes in the Spatial Location of Work  14. Conclusion: Further Developments and Unresolved Issues