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Article: Forging links between "communities of practice" and schools through online learning communities: implications for appropriating and negotiating knowledge.
- Article from:
- International Journal on ELearning
- Article date:
- April 1, 2002
- Author:
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In this article, we review the concept of learning communities through a social-(historical) cultural Vygotskian perspective. We recognized that the 'contextualized' nature of real communities of practice, which facilitates both implicit and explicit ways of knowing (Brown & Duguid, 2000), is still lacking in school-based learning communities. We draw implications for how learning in online communities can complement schools. Not only should schools (on- and offline) create social constructive opportunities for students, the 'context' of the community of practice -- the structuring of activity and working relations among practitioners -- should also be facilitated in the ...