The author believes that government practices can become foci of resistance, and can also serve as substrate for creating a terrorist mentality in resistance groups.
Similarly, Normalisation Process Theory, 23 which describes how practices can become routinely embedded in social contexts, can play an important role in orienting people designing improvement interventions towards what is likely to be important, relevant and feasible in making their efforts successful.
Certainly, Wenger has acknowledged that communities of practice can become cliques, and that strong ties of membership can create barriers to outsiders.
Investigations could also explore how 'values' in organisations may shift to produce more conducive environments in which anti-discriminatory practice can become embedded and so allow culturally competent care practices to flourish.
But like many things on Wall Street, the practice can become perilous if not properly policed.
But in a school where twisting an ankle during track practice can become a homework assignment, participating on a team is an educational enhancement, not a distraction.
Based on interviews with business-minded doctors, a medical practice can become a cost-efficient machine if managers control human resource expenses, spread out fixed costs as much as possible, exploit information technology and carefully track business metrics.
Once established, produced through specific exclusionary practices, a behaviour pattern can become self-sufficient, transcending its formative contexts; a wide variety of people can 'make themselves up' in relation to it.
What really matters here is the extent to which new technologies and practices can – and do – become embedded in both the contexts in which they are to be used, and in the everyday practices of the individuals whose work is affected by these innovations.
The use of these practices is a possible way to make science education meaningful because when students experience a balance between such professional practice and school practice, they can become more receptive to the concepts (Anderson and Sungur [1999]).
