13. COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Learning through co-participation
“Sharing tacit knowledge requires interaction
and informal learning processes such as storytelling,
conversation, coaching and apprenticeship of the kind
that communities of practice provide.”
(Wenger et al 2002)
14. Community of practice is a group
of people who...
• share a concern, set of
problems, passion about
a topic
• deepen their knowledge
in the specific area by
interacting on an
ongoing basis
• discuss their situations, their aspirations and needs,
ponder common issues, explore ideas and act as
sounding boards to each other
15. Sounds great, but how do you cultivate a
community of practice?
“Because communities of practice are organic,
designing them is more a matter of shepherding
their evolution than creating them from scratch.”
- Wenger et al (2002)
16. • CRITICAL COMMUNITY OF INQUIRERS
Deepening and extending practice through critical
conversation
“Practice is a social process involving ideas about what
makes for the good. As such it is lost without collective
exploration.” (Smith 1995)
17. Community of inquiry is a group
of people who...
collaboratively engage in purposeful critical discourse and
reflection to construct personal meaning and confirm mutual
understanding