Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Literacy, reification and the dynamics of social interaction
- 2 Language and power in communities of practice
- 3 Mediating allegations of racism in a multiethnic London school: what speech communities and communities of practice can tell us about discourse and power
- 4 “I've picked some up from a colleague”: language, sharing and communities of practice in an institutional setting
- 5 The person in the doing: negotiating the experience of self
- 6 Communities of practice and learning communities: do bilingual co-workers learn in community?
- 7 Moving beyond communities of practice in adult basic education
- 8 ‘Communities of practice’ in higher education: useful heuristic or educational model?
- 9 Communities of practice, risk and Sellafield
- 10 Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: from The Age of Mythology to today's schools
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- LEARNING IN DOING
Subject Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 November 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Series Foreword
- Introduction
- 1 Literacy, reification and the dynamics of social interaction
- 2 Language and power in communities of practice
- 3 Mediating allegations of racism in a multiethnic London school: what speech communities and communities of practice can tell us about discourse and power
- 4 “I've picked some up from a colleague”: language, sharing and communities of practice in an institutional setting
- 5 The person in the doing: negotiating the experience of self
- 6 Communities of practice and learning communities: do bilingual co-workers learn in community?
- 7 Moving beyond communities of practice in adult basic education
- 8 ‘Communities of practice’ in higher education: useful heuristic or educational model?
- 9 Communities of practice, risk and Sellafield
- 10 Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: from The Age of Mythology to today's schools
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- LEARNING IN DOING
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Beyond Communities of PracticeLanguage Power and Social Context, pp. 236 - 243Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005