Books
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Learning in landscapes of practice
Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning
Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Mark Fenton O’Creevy, Steven Hutchinson, Chris Kubiak, Beverly Wenger-Trayner
Learning in Landscapes of Practice is of particular relevance to people concerned with the design of professional or vocational learning. It will also be a valuable resource for students engaged in higher education courses with work-based elements.
Routledge, 2014
A very relevant and well-written book. It holds both a high level of reflection, but at the same time includes examples and keeps the language ‘down on earth’.
Digital Habitats
Stewarding technology for communities
Etienne Wenger, Nancy White, John Smith
This practical book explores the increasing interweaving of communities and technology. It presents a framework for anchoring a technology configuration in the learning needs of a community. It introduces the role of technology stewards who can bridge between the life of a community and the constantly evolving potential of technology.
Harvard Business School Press, 2002
Digital Habitats has a single goal: to help the reader understand the role of technology steward in cultivating a community of practice: what is it, why you would do it, are you are cut out for it, how to do it and where to find help.
Cultivating communities of practice
A guide to managing knowledge
Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder
This practical book is targeted to leaders in organization who want to cultivate communities of practice as a way to manage knowledge. It explains why communities of practice are a key to managing knowledge. And it provides practical advice on the art of cultivating communities and on creating an organizational context to support communities.
Havard Business School Press, 2002
This book is an essential reading for any leader in today’s knowledge economy. It will undoubtedly remain as a reference for all of us practitioners who want to develop communities of practice for the benefit and long-term success of organizations and their employees.
Communities of practice
Learning, meaning and identity
Etienne Wenger
This conceptual book lays out a social theory of learning centered on the concept of communities of practice. Based an ethnographic study, it presents a broad framework for thinking about learning and knowing in social terms, exploring such concepts as meaning, boundaries, trajectories, generations, identity, identification, power, and many others.
Cambridge University Press, 1998
‘Communities of practice’ offers a comprehensive framework for understanding and analysing what people do in the context of their social milieu. The author includes many examples and uses a work-place vignette to illustrate the relevance and power of his ideas. If you are not afraid of theory and abstraction and are open to new concepts, this book may indeed be revolutionary.
Situated learning
Legitimate peripheral participation
Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger
In this short conceptual book, anthropologist Jean Lave and I first introduced the concept of community of practice. Starting with an analysis five case studies of traditional apprenticeship systems, we observed how in each case a whole community served as a living curriculum for the newcomer. We called these communities “communities of practice.”
Cambridge University Press, 1991
If you are interested in the study of situated learning and social practice theory, this is the place to start – the origin of the terms `legitimate peripheral participation’ (LPP) and `communities of practice’ employed ubiquitously by researchers developing sociocultural critiques of Enlightenment thinking.
Artifical intelligence and tutoring systems
Computational and cognitive approaches to the communication of knowledge
Etienne Wenger
This was Etienne’s first book. It almost feels like something from another lifetime. “ I wrote it in preparation for my dissertation, because I could not find a thorough reference for the field of intelligent tutoring systems. These are artificial-intelligence systems designed for educational purposes.” When it came out, it was the first book to survey the field of intelligent tutoring systems in a systematic way.
Morgan Kaufmann, 1987
This is a classic book for Artificial Intelligence Tutoring Systems. I used it in a class. It has a introduction and a historic for STI.
