| Beyond Communities of Practice Contributor(s): Barton, David (Editor), Tusting, Karin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521836433 ISBN-13: 9780521836432 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $86.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - General |
| Dewey: 302 |
| LCCN: 2004030653 |
| Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives (Hardcover) |
| Physical Information: 0.73" H x 6.7" W x 9.28" (1.04 lbs) 258 pages |
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Contributor Bio(s): Tusting, Karin: - 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.Barton, David: - 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. |