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Communities of Practice Bibliography books and articles on theory, practice, examples, and so on

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• Lave, Jean, & Wenger, Etienne, Situated Learning; Legitimate Peripheral Participation (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991). http://isbn.nu/0521423740 The term "community of practice" was introduced in this book. Still a great read. "Learning itself is an improvised practice: A learning curriculum unfolds in opportunities for engagement in practice. It is not specified as a set of dictates for proper practice." p 93.
• Etienne Wenger, Communities of practice; Learning, Meaning and Identity (New York: Cambridge Univesity Press, 1998). http://isbn.nu/0521663636
• Wenger, E., McDermott, R., & Snyder, W.M. (2002). Cultivating communities of practice: A guide to managing knowledge. Boston: Harvard Business School Press. http://isbn.nu/1578513308 "How to do it" informed by theory. Here's [excerpt].
• Lave, Jean, "The Practice of Learning", p 3-32 in Seth Chaiklin and Jean Lave (eds) Understanding Practice; perspectives on activity and context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993). From Jean Lave's preface: "Participants in the conference agreed, on the whole, on four premises concerning knowledge and learning in practice:

1. "Knowledge always undergoes construction and transformation in use.
2. "Learning is an integral aspect of activity in and with the world at all times. That learning occurs is not problematic.
3. "What is learned is always complexly problematic.
4. "Acquisition of knowledge is not a simple matter of taking in knowledge; rather, things assumed to be natural categories, such as 'bodies of knowledge,' 'learners,' and 'cultural transmission,' require reconceptualization as cultural, social products."

• Wenger, E. (2001). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity. Retrieved 2 24, 2006 from [http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/lmi.shtml].
• Kuhn, T. (2002). Negotiating boundaries between scholars and practitioners: Knowledge, networks, and communities of practice. **Management Communication Quarterly, 16 (1)**, 106-112.
• Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System. **Systems Thinker**, Retrieved 2 24, 2006 from [http://www.ewenger.com/pub/pub_systems_thinker_wrd.doc].
• David Barton and Karin Tusting (eds.) Beyond Communities of Practice; Language, Power, and Social Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). [Contents & front matter]. [Book review].