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100 1 _aBlackmore, Chris.
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245 1 0 _aSocial Learning Systems and Communities of Practice
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_cedited by Chris Blackmore.
250 _a1.
264 1 _aLondon :
_bSpringer London,
_c2010.
300 _aXII, 247 p. 17 illus.
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505 0 _aEarly Traditions of Social Learning Systems -- Government as a Learning System -- Insights into Appreciation and Learning Systems -- Critical Social Learning Systems – The Hawkesbury Tradition -- The Community Challenge: The Learning Response -- Sustainability, Social Learning and the Democratic Imperative: Lessons from the Australian Landcare Movement -- Traditions of Understanding: Language, Dialogue and Experience -- Messy Issues, Worldviews and Systemic Competencies -- Communities of Practice -- Our World as a Learning System: A Communities-of-Practice Approach -- Conceptual Tools for CoPs as Social Learning Systems: Boundaries, Identity, Trajectories and Participation -- Learning Nursing in the Workplace Community: The Generation of Professional Capital -- Graduate Professional Education from a Community of Practice Perspective: The Role of Social and Technical Networking -- Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems: the Career of a Concept -- Synthesis -- Managing Systemic Change: Future Roles for Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice?.
520 _aSocial Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy. It is likely to be of interest to anyone trying to understand how to think systemically and to act and interact effectively in situations experienced as complex, messy and changing. While mainly concerned with professional praxis, where theory and practice inform each other, there is much here that can apply at a personal level. This book offers conceptual tools and suggestions for new ways of being and acting in the world in relation to each other, that arise from both old and new understandings of communities, learning and systems. Starting with twentieth century insights into social learning, learning systems and appreciative systems from Donald Schön and Sir Geoffrey Vickers, the book goes on to consider the contemporary traditions of critical social learning systems and communities of practice, pioneered by Richard Bawden and Etienne Wenger and their colleagues. A synthesis of the ideas raised, written by the editor, concludes this reader. The theory and practice of social learning systems and communities of practice appear to have much to offer in influencing and managing systemic change for a better world.
650 0 _aComputer science.
650 0 _aSocial sciences
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650 1 4 _aComputer Science.
650 2 4 _aComputer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.
650 2 4 _aComputers and Society.
650 2 4 _aComputer Science, general.
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-133-2
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