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Beyond Communities of Practice

Language Power and Social Context

By: David Barton (Editor), Karin Tusting (Editor), Roy Pea (Editor), John Seely Brown (Editor), Christian Heath (Editor)

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Paperback | 22 July 2010

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The concept of 'communities of practice' (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 1998) has become an influential one in education, management, and social sciences in recent years. This book consists of a series of studies by linguists and educational researchers, examining and developing aspects of the concept which have remained relatively unexplored. Framings provided by theories of language-in-use, literacy practices, and discourse extend the concept, bringing to light issues around conflict, power, and the significance of the broader social context which have been overlooked. Chapters assess the relationship between communities of practice and other theories including literacy studies, critical language studies, the ethnography of communication, socio-cultural activity theory, and sociological theories of risk. Domains of empirical research reported include schools, police stations, adult basic education, higher education, and multilingual settings. The book highlights the need to incorporate thinking around language-in-use, power and conflict, and social context into communities of practice.

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Non-Fiction Education Educational Psychology Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Learning Sociology & Anthropology Language & Linguistics Linguistics

List of Contributors	p. ix
Series Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Literacy, reification and the dynamics of social interaction	p. 14
Language and power in communities of practice	p. 36
Mediating allegations of racism in a multiethnic London school: what speech communities and communities of practice can tell us about discourse and power	p. 55
"I've picked some up from a colleague": language, sharing and communities of practice in an institutional setting	p. 77
The person in the doing: negotiating the experience of self	p. 105
Communities of practice and learning communities: do bilingual co-workers learn in community?	p. 139
Moving beyond communities of practice in adult basic education	p. 158
'Communities of practice' in higher education: useful heuristic or educational model?	p. 180
Communities of practice, risk and Sellafield	p. 198
Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: from The Age of Mythology to today's schools	p. 214
Author Index	p. 233
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