They formed the group several years ago after managers and technicians attended a retreat where they were introduced to the concept of communities of practice and learned how such groups could help the company develop and retain technical expertise.
Drawing on the concept of communities of practice, this paper seeks to operationalize an understanding of how the social relations that underpin smallholder-related value chains can be better supported to enhance resilience.
Critics have focused mainly on the internal dynamics of his concept of communities of practice to argue that the complexity of social interaction within them is inadequately recognized.
Within healthcare, the concept of communities of practice, where groups of professionals work on initiatives to create, implement and evaluate evidence-based care improvements, may be thought of as one key forum for engaged practice.
Interest in the concept of community of practice has grown rapidly because of its practical as well as theoretical applications.
It is, on the part of much of today's right, a war on the very concept of community, of a society that uses the institution we call government to offer certain basic protections to all its members.
The paper suggests that the usefulness of the concept of community of practice to higher education lies primarily in treating classes as one of many overlapping more or less formal communities students may be involved in.
At the same time, the authors parlay Etienne Wenger's concept of "community of practice" into an ethos of a dynamic, learner-centered pedagogy that is especially well-suited to the peculiar teaching situation of the writing center.
But turning to the concept of "community standards" of decency in defining pornography, they noted the virtual impossibility of a Web site meeting the standards of, say, Chicago, Amsterdam and Tehran at the same time.
This notion coincides with Stanley Fish's concept of "interpretive communities" of readers, although Bayard's own inner book may be more indebted to home-team text destabilizers like Derrida and Lacan.
