Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context
(Part of the Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives Series)
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The concept of communities of practice (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become influential in education, management, and social sciences in recent years. This volume emphasizes the significance of language, power, and social context in understanding how communities of practice work. Domains of empirical research reported include schools, police stations, adult basic education, higher education and multilingual settings. The relationship between communities of practice and literacy studies, critical language studies, the ethnography of communication, socio-cultural activity theory, and sociological theories of risk is also evaluated.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521544920
ISBN13:9780521544924
Release Date:October 2005
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:258 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
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