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.
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This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of "communities of practice", which has been influential in social sciences, education, and management in recent years. Its main purpose is to emphasize the importance of areas such as language, power, and social context which are essential to understanding how communities of practice work. The concept has been a particularly influential one but has had little sustained critique, so a book of this kind is timely and necessary.
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David Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. His main work has been concerned with carrying out detailed studies of literacy practices in different domains of life and with rethinking the nature of literacy in contemporary society.
Karin Tusting is a Research Associate at the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University. She is currently working on the Adult Learners' Lives project, an ethnography study of the relationship between learning and other aspects of people's lives, working with adult literacy, numeracy, and ESOL learners.
Karin Tusting is a Research Associate at the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University. She is currently working on the Adult Learners' Lives project, an ethnography study of the relationship between learning and other aspects of people's lives, working with adult literacy, numeracy, and ESOL learners.
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critical social linguistics, academic literacies research, literacy artefacts, affinity space, external grammar, situated literacies, legitimation conflicts, official wording, new literacy studies, core generator, internal grammar, shared repertoire, explicit photos, situated learning, original generator, literacy events, broader social structures, literacy practices, mutual engagement, intensive knowledge, peripheral participation, critical psychology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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critical social linguistics, academic literacies research, literacy artefacts, affinity space, external grammar, situated literacies, legitimation conflicts, official wording, new literacy studies, core generator, internal grammar, shared repertoire, explicit photos, situated learning, original generator, literacy events, broader social structures, literacy practices, mutual engagement, intensive knowledge, peripheral participation, critical psychology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Cambridge University Press, New York, Basic Skills Agency, Harvard University Press, Home Office, Negotiating the Experience of Self, Oxford University Press, Refugee Council, Computer Creative, John Benjamins, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Open University Press, The Guardian, Ablex Publishing Corporation, Bringing Maria, Education of Adults, Englewood Cliffs, Forensic Linguistics, Harvard Business School Press, Local Literacies, Mediated Discourse, Nuclear Installations Inspectorate, The Internet Club, United States, University of California Press New!
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- Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Jean Lave on 10 pages
- Situated Literacies: Theorising Reading and Writing in Context by David Barton on 5 pages
- Perspectives on Activity Theory (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Yrjö Engeström on 5 pages
- Cognition in Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life by Jean Lave on 4 pages
- The New Work Order by James Gee on 4 pages
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