Tag: interdisciplinary perspectives

Mary Gobbi, “Learning Nursing in the Workplace Community: The Generation of Professional Capital”

May 18, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Field of Supervision – Healthcare, Field of Supervision – Interdisciplinary, Format – Book, Situated Learning, Workplace Learning

Mary Gobbi expands on Lave and Wenger’s ideas regarding communities of practice by noting that other professions and clients/patients can also become part of the development of a community of practice – learning occurs with and because of others outside what might formally be determined a “community of practice”. Drawing on nursing placements, Gobbi describes…
Etienne Wenger, “Communities of Practice and Social Learning Systems”

May 18, 2024

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Meris Bray

in Annotated Bibliography, Communities of Practice, Field of Supervision – Interdisciplinary, Format – Article, Learning Systems

Wenger has developed his theory of practical and professional learning over many publications. His work has very rarely been taken up by lawyers, but it is useful. Wenger points out that competence is defined by a community over time, but interplays with our experience of “the world” as part of that community and others. Competence…