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Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning & Identity
Etienne Wenger
Kathleen LerouxUniversity of Ottawa
CMN 5150
Presentation OverviewPresentation OverviewINTRODUCTION
PART 1: PRACTICE•Practice as meaning•Practice as community•Practice as learning•Practice as boundary•Practice as locality
PART 11: IDENTITY•Identity in practice•Identities of participation and non-participation •Modes of belonging•Identification and negotiability
IntroductionIntroduction
A theory of learning as a process of social participation
Analysis centered on the “informal communities of practice that people form as they pursue shared enterprises over time”
Notion of practice refers to level of social structure that reflects shared learning
“The concept of practice connotes doing, but not just doing in and of itself. It is doing in a historical and social context that gives structure and meaning to what we do.” (p.47)
Concept of practice includes both the explicit and tacit
Practice as meaningPractice as meaning
Fig.1.0 The duality of participation and reification
Practice as communityPractice as communityMutual engagementJoint enterpriseShared repertoire
Fig. 1.1 Dimensions of practice as the property of a community
Practice as learningPractice as learningThe development of practice “is a matter of sustaining enough mutual engagement in pursuing an enterprise together to share some significant learning” (p.86)
Shared histories of learningReification vs. participationLearning in practice
Practice as boundaryPractice as boundary Boundary as discontinuities between those who have been
participating in communities of practice and those who have not; lines of distinction between members and non-members
Duality of boundary relations
Two types of connections that create bridges across boundaries and link communities of practice with rest of world :
1. Boundary objects2. Brokering
Boundary encounters◦ One-on-one conversation◦ Immersion◦ Delegations
Practice as a connection◦ Boundary practices◦ Overlaps◦ Peripheries
Practice as localityPractice as locality
Community of practice
Constellations of communities of practice◦Indicators a community of practice has formed
Identity in practiceIdentity in practiceWenger’s perspective of identity “does
justice to the lived experience of identity while recognizing its social character- it is the social, the cultural, the historical with a human face” (p.145)
Parallels between practice and identity◦ Identity as negotiated experience◦ Identity as community membership◦ Identity as learning trajectory◦ Identity as nexus of multimembership◦ Identity as a relation between the local
and global
Participation and non-Participation and non-participationparticipation
Not only do we produce our identities through practices we engage in, we also define ourselves through practices we do not engage in
Interaction of participation and non-participation◦ Peripherality◦ Marginality
Institutional non-participation◦ Non-participation as compromise◦ Non-participation as strategy◦ Non-participation as cover◦ Non-participation as practice
Modes of belongingModes of belongingNotion of belonging extended beyond local communities of practice
Three modes of belonging:◦Engagement◦Imagination◦Alignment
Identification and Identification and negotiabilitynegotiability
Identity formation as a dual process of identification and negotiability
IdentificationNegotiability
◦Economies of meaning◦Ownership of meaning
Inherent tension between the dual process◦Internal vs. external
Related LinksRelated Linkshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjw0YoqpEq8http://www.ewenger.com/theory/http://www.asaecenter.org/Resources/JALArticleDetail.cfm?ItemNumber=16217http://www.timhoogenboom.nl/?p=287http://www.infed.org/biblio/communities_of_practice.htmhttp://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1472-
6963-10-3.pdfhttp://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/
lss.shtmlhttp://www.learning-theories.com/communities-of-
practice-lave-and-wenger.htmlhttp://www.jstor.org/pss/40248418http://www0.hku.hk/curric/amytsui/bk_reviews/
docs/The_complexities_of_identity_formation.pdf
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