National College online network. On 1 April, the National College merged with the Teaching Agency to become the National College for Teaching and Leadership.
The new agency has two key aims: improving the quality of the workforce; and helping schools to help each other to improve. Find out more about the new agency. Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice. Contents: introduction · communities of practice · legitimate peripheral participation and situated learning · learning organizations and learning communities · conclusion · references · links · how to cite this article Many of the ways we have of talking about learning and education are based on the assumption that learning is something that individuals do.
Furthermore, we often assume that learning ‘has a beginning and an end; that it is best separated from the rest of our activities; and that it is the result of teaching’ (Wenger 1998: 3).