Beyond Communities of Practice

Download or read book Beyond Communities of Practice written by David Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-10-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of "communities of practice", which has been influential in social sciences, education, and management in recent years. Its main purpose is to emphasize the importance of areas such as language, power, and social context which are essential to understanding how communities of practice work. The concept has been a particularly influential one but has had little sustained critique, so a book of this kind is timely and necessary.