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I was aked to look into Wenger and give my thoughts so here they are When looking into Etienne Wenger and his thought on Communities of practice the obvious place to start is his website [|http://ewenger.com] where there is an overview of what he means by Communities of practice. “//Theoretically, my work focuses on social learning systems.I am trying to understand the connection between knowledge, community, learning, and identity. The basic idea is that human knowing is fundamentally a social act. This simple observation has profound implications for the way we think of and attempt to support learning//.” When I read this I initially agreed strongly with what was said. In particular his observation that “//The basic idea that human knowing is fundamentally a social act//” I believe that teaching should always be at the very least a two way process between student and teacher but ideally a multidirectional process between student teacher fellow students and indeed anyone who is involved with the process. However looking more deeply into the text I notice the lack of the words teacher or teaching anywhere in the theory. In particular he is looking into “ //the connection between knowledge, community, learning, and identity”.// I do agree with what he has said when he goes into greater detail about communities of practice in a link from the page “Communities of practice A brief introduction.” however I believe it is merely an associated periphery of teaching not a core tool or concept. A community of practice is that a group of people with some kind of common link who interact regularly. This could be a group of professionals who meet to discuss developments in their field or a group of enthusiasts who meet to share feelings and support each other. However in order to be a community of practice there must be a shared goal or intention to provide the “practice” and make those taking part practitioners. When reading this particularly in relation to our current module I noticed several words that indicate that you could have a community of practice over the internet although I did not find any direct reference to this. Words liked domain, interact, and network crop up regularly however I believe that in order be a full community of practice you need to have more than a remote connection. Although a community of practice may well use the internet to communicate that would not on it own constitute a community of practice. In conclusion all that I have read about communities of practice I am in general agreement with however it is peripheral to teaching and contains very little teaching practice. You may learn as part of a community indeed we learn best as part of a social activity however we can also learn on our own. If you pick up a hot pot from the oven I would hope learn to use an oven glove next time if this is done on your own then although learning has taken place there has been no teaching.

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