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From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Beyond Communities of Practice: Tusting, Barton (Ed) 

	
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Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 13:29:36
From: Joyce Reid < jreid at cup.org >
Subject: Beyond Communities of Practice: Tusting, Barton (Ed) 
 



Title: Beyond Communities of Practice 
Subtitle: Language, Power and Social Context 
Series Title: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive & Computational Perspectives  

Publication Year: 2005 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521544920 


Author: Karin Tusting, Lancaster University
Editor: David Barton, Lancaster University

Hardback: ISBN: 0521836433 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 70.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0521544920 Pages: 256 Price: U.S. $ 24.99


Abstract:

The concept of "communities of practice" (Lave and Wenger 1991, Wenger 
1998) has become influential in education, management, and social sciences 
in recent years. This volume emphasizes the significance of language, 
power, and social context in understanding how communities of practice 
work. Domains of empirical research reported include schools, police 
stations, adult basic education, higher education and multilingual 
settings. The relationship between communities of practice and literacy 
studies, critical language studies, the ethnography of communication, 
socio-cultural activity theory, and sociological theories of risk is also 
evaluated. 



Contents
Introduction; 
1. Literacy, reification, and the dynamics of social interaction David 
Barton and Mary Hamilton; 
2. Language and power in communities of practice Karin Tusting; 
3. Mediating allegations of racism in a multiethnic London school: what 
speech communities and communities of practice can tell us about discourse 
and power Angela Creese; 
4. 'I've picked some up from a colleague': language, sharing, and 
communities of practice in an institutional setting Frances Rock; 
5. The person in the doing: negotiating the experience of self Maria Clara 
Keating; 
6. Communities of practice and learning communities: do bilingual co-
workers learn in community? Deirdre Martin; 
7. Moving beyond communities of practice in adult basic education Steven 
Robert Harris and Nicola Shelswell; 
8. Communities of practice in higher education: useful heuristic or 
educational model? Mary Lea; 
9. Communities of practice, risk, and Sellafield Greg Myers; 
10. Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: from 'the age of 
mythology' to today's schools James Paul Gee. 


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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