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started by Todd Vens on 16 Sep 12
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    #1 Todd Vens on 16 Sep 12
     
    Wenger, E. (2010). Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept. In C. Blackmore (Ed.), Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice (pp. 179-198). London: Springer London.

    Reflecting back on a theory of learning he helped establish 20 years earlier, and in response to his critics, Wenger explains that although a community of practice is "an informal and dynamic social structure," this focus on focus on the social aspect of learning "is not a displacement of the person. On the contrary, it is an emphasis on the person as a social participant, as a meaning-making entity for whom the social world is a resource for constituting an identity."

    But Wenger does warn that a community can become "too much of a community, too strongly identified with itself, prone to groupthink, closed, or inbred," and then it might be time to "shake it up and open its boundaries."

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