Communities of Practice

Question 1

what is a ‘psychological’ perspective

Answer 1

• learning is situated in particular contexts
• participate in authentic practices that reflect the real world (not ‘real’)
• construction of meaning

Question 2

what is an ‘anthropological’ perspective

Answer 2

• learnings situated in CoP
• participate in social practices of the community - ‘real world’
• construction of meanings and identities

Question 3

what is a CoP

Answer 3

‘communities of practice are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better’ (wenger 2000)

Question 4

what does a community of practice look like

Answer 4

• the domain: a shared domain of interest; membership implies a commitment to the domain; shared competence
• the community: learn from one another in order to pursue and improve their domain of interest
• the practice: members of a CoP are practitioners
• reproduction cycle: members contribute to the development of practices within the community; these practices, in turn, constitute the immediate context for their learning
• construction of identities

Question 5

what do you learn in a CoP

Answer 5

‘learning involves the whole person… it implies becoming a full participant, a member, a kind of person… activities, tasks, functions, and understandings do not exist in isolation, they are part of your participation in the community of practice in which they have meaning’

Question 6

how do you learn in a CoP

Answer 6

• legitimate: participation in the communities practices matters to the communities successful performance
• peripheral: the member of the community is novice whose learning trajectory is expected to result in full participation
• participation: the ability to learn develops in close relation to the ability to participate in and perform tasks

Question 7

your own professional learning and implications to your practice

Answer 7

• internally: how to organise experiences that ground learning in practice through participation in communities of practice
• externally: how to connect the experiences of learners to actual practice through peripheral forms of participation in broader communities beyond the walls of the school/training sessions
• over the lifetime of students: how to serve the lifelong learning needs of students by organising communities of practice focused on topics of interest to students beyond

Question 8

what are the SE learning outcomes

Answer 8

• competent: in the sense that they are knowledgeable game players
• literate: in the sense that they understand, value, and critique sport practices
• enthusiastic: in the sense that they participate and behave in ways that preserve, protect, and enhance [transform] sport cultures