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Author Wenger, Etienne, 1952-

Title Learning in Landscapes of Practice : Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (183 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: An invitation to a conversation; PART I Theory; 1 Learning in a landscape of practice: A framework; PART II Stories from the landscape; 2 Failure and resilience at boundaries: The emotional process of identity work; 3 Students at the academic-workplace boundary: Tourists and sojourners in practice-based education; 4 Multimembership and identification; 5 Brokering boundary encounters; PART III Convening; 6 Systems conveners in complex landscapes
7 Habiforum: Convening stakeholders to reinvent spatial planning8 The IDEA Partnership: Convening learning partnerships in the complex landscape of special education; PART IV Conclusions, and an invitation to a continued conversation; 9 Challenges for practice-based education; Index
Summary If the body of knowledge of a profession is a living landscape of practice, then our personal experience of learning can be thought of as a journey through this landscape. Within Learning in Landscapes of Practice, this metaphor is further developed in order to start an important conversation about the nature of practice knowledge, identity and the experience of practitioners and their learning. In doing so, this book is a pioneering and timely exploration of the future of professional development and higher education. The book combines a strong theoretical perspective g
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Subject Experiential learning.
Professional education.
Professional learning communities.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Experiential learning
Professional education
Professional learning communities
Form Electronic book
Author Fenton-O'Creevy, Mark
Hutchinson, Steven
Kubiak, Chris
Wenger-Trayner, Beverly
ISBN 9781317692539
1317692535