Learning, Organizational Behavior - General & Miscellaneous
Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity
Etienne Wenger, Roy Pea (Editor), John Seely Brown
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Overview
Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school.Synopsis
Presents a broad conceptual framework for thinking about learning as a process of social participation.
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From the Publisher
"The terms of debate about 'knowledge management' and 'learning organizations' are slowly, and finally turning from issues of information and technology to those of human capabilities and the sources of motivation, creativity, and problem-solving skills that create real value in the new economy. Wenger is light years ahead in understanding those sources, and the critical importance of informal communities and 'social learning' in fostering them." Phillip Brook Manville, Partner, McKinsey & Co.Book Details
Published
September 1, 1999
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pages
336
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780521663632