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). But how would things look if we took a different track? Supposing learning is social and comes largely from of our experience of participating in daily life? Jean Lave was (and is) a social anthropologist with a strong interest in social theory, based at the University of California, Berkeley.
Communities of practice In some groups we are core members, in others we are more at the margins. The characteristics of communities of practice References. Somerville skillshare | 12 – 6 pm March 2nd, 2014 | Somerville Armory | 191 Highland Avenue Somerville, MA. Jimmy Wales - Busting the Myths of Entrepreneurship. Wikipedia. Free multilingual online encyclopedia Wikipedia has received praise for its enablement of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, culture, and reduced degree of commercial bias; but criticism for exhibiting systemic bias, particularly gender bias against women and alleged ideological bias.[13][14] Its reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s but has improved over time, as Wikipedia has been generally praised in the late 2010s and early 2020s.[3][13][15] The website's coverage of controversial topics such as American politics and major events like the COVID-19 pandemic has received substantial media attention.
It has been censored by world governments, ranging from specific pages to the entire site. Nevertheless, Wikipedia has become an element of popular culture, with references in books, films, and academic studies. History Nupedia Wikipedia originally developed from another encyclopedia project called Nupedia. Launch and growth Milestones Openness. Community. The Wikipedia community is the community of contributors to the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Individual contributors are known as "Wikipedians".
The overwhelming majority of Wikipedians are volunteers. With the increased maturity and visibility of Wikipedia other categories of Wikipedians emerged, such as Wikipedian in Residence and students with assignments related to editing Wikipedia. A significant controversy was stirred with paid contributors from the Wiki-PR agency to Wikipedia, which even prompted an intervention from the Wikimedia Foundation.[1] Size[edit] Studies of the size of the community of Wikipedia showed an exponential growth rate of the number of Wikipedia contributors during the early years. Motivation[edit] Video which articulates the enthusiasm of the Wikipedia Community Various studies have been done with regard to the motivations of Wikipedia contributors.
To these six motivations he also added: Media[edit] Wikipedia has spawned several community news publications.