In so doing, we make use of particularconnections that exist between these contexts, or that we and others createand extend, and that make it possible to pursue goals and interests in one context by taking part in another in a particular way.
Human action has a potential and varying cross-contextual scope, scale or reach.
This implies a genre of ethnographic research studies of learning. They are weakly structured in common use, and become strongly structured in individual-site use. Like the blackboard, a boundary object 'sits in the middle' of a group of actors with divergent viewpoints. J. 1997 Learning, Apprenticeship, Social Practice Dreier, O. 1995 Personal Location and Perspective-Psychological Aspect of Social Practice. A field study of salespeople'sleaning at work.