reification – Adventures in Oceanography and Teaching

Small groups work on shared artefacts

mglessmer — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:56:30 +0000

Participation in shared production of artefacts is a great way to learn in a community, because putting things on paper (or, as we will see later, on online slides or physical whiteboards) requires a clearer articulation of the topic of discussion, and a level of commitment to a shared meaning (Wenger, 1998). We give two […]

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Communities of practice

mglessmer — Sun, 14 Nov 2021 17:51:37 +0000

Summarising my reading on “communities of practice”, and my views on how this framework might be useful for thinking about change in our context, for our iEarth/BioCEED-led course on “leading educational change”… Communities of practice are often used as a model for “learning through participation”, describing how culture influences how knowledge within organisations is built […]

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