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mmunities of Practice Facilitating Social Learning in Higher Education
Communities of Practice
Jacquie McDonald Aileen Cater-Steel •
Editors
Communities of Practice Facilitating Social Learning in Higher Education
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Editors Jacquie McDonald University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2877-9 DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2879-3
Aileen Cater-Steel University of Southern Queensland Toowoomba, QLD Australia
ISBN 978-981-10-2879-3
(eBook)
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Foreword
Communities of Practice Go to University Going to university is usually a sign that you are growing up. You may still have some maturing to do, but higher education will help you do that. Therefore, as we reflect on the trajectory of the concept of community of practice, a pair of books written by and for people who use the concept in university contexts is a good sign: the concept is growing up.
The History of the Concept The concept of community of practice took a circuitous route to the field of education. It was initially developed as part of a research program whose purpose was to rethink learning for an education audience. The aim was to inspect and reconsider the assumptions about learning that underlie current school design. The strategy was to study learning as a phenomenon in its own right: What does learning look like when it is not the result of teaching? Decoupling learning and teaching was meant to give rise to new ways of thinking about learning. This in turn was to enable new ways of approaching the design of schools and other institutions of learning. To our surprise the concept was first taken up by organiza
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