| Description |
ix, 183 pages ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Contents: Introduction. Communities of practice: a contested concept in flux? / Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin -- Critiquing theories of learning and communities of practice / Alison Fuller -- Lost in translation: communities of practice--the journey from academic model to practitioner tool / Jason Hughes -- From communities of practice to mycorrhizae / Yrjö Engeström -- Including the missing subject: placing the personal within the community / Stephen Billett -- Cultivating network analysis: rethinking "community" within communities of practice / Nick Jewson -- Sport as a community of practice: the coach-athlete relationship in British professional basketball / Val Owen-Pugh -- Becoming adults via communities of practice: the transition from work to adulthood / John Goodwin -- Apprenticeship from past to present: the challenges and consequences of rampant "community" diversity / Lorna Unwin -- Sexuality, gender, and legitimate peripheral participation: an ethnographic study of a call centre / Matthew Brannan -- The learning trajectories of old-timers: academic identities and communities of practice in higher education / Nalita James -- Unemployment as a community of practice: tales of survival in the new Germany / Vanessa Beck -- Putting virtual communities of practice in their place: changes in the spatial location of work / Nick Jewson -- Conclusion: further developments and unresolved issues / Jason Hughes, Nick Jewson and Lorna Unwin |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Communities of practice.
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Organizational learning.
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Social learning.
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| Author |
Hughes, Jason.
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Jewson, Nick, 1946-
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Unwin, Lorna.
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| LC no. |
2007007163 |
| ISBN |
9780415364737 (hbk.) |
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0415364736 (hbk.) |
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9780415364744 (paperback) |
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0415364744 (paperback) |
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