Beyond communities of practice
By: edited by David Barton, Karin Tusting.
Contributors: Barton, David, 1949-; Tusting, Karin, 1973-
Series: Learning in doing
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, U.K; N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Organizational learning; Language and education; Social learning
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Literacy, reification, and the dynamics of social interaction / David Barton and Mary Hamilton; title: Language and power in communities of practice / Karin Tusting; title: Mediating allegations of racism in a multi ethnic London school! / Angela Creese; title: "I've picked some up from a colleague" : language, sharing and communities of practice in an institutional setting / Frances Rock; title: The person in the doing : negotiating the experience of self / Maria Clara Keating; title: Communities of practice and learning communities : do bilingual co-workers learn in community? / Deirdre Martin; title: Moving beyond communities of practice in adult basic education / Steven Robert Harris and Nicola Shelswell; title: Communities of practice in higher education : useful heuristic or educational model? / Mary Lea; title: Communities of practice, risk, and sellafield / Greg Myers; title: Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces : from the age of mythology to today's schools / James Paul Gee.