Lisa Endersby @lmendersby #NASPA17 Networked Knowledge: Professional Development and Learning in Online Communities of Practice Lisa Endersby @lmendersby #NASPA17
What is a Community of Practice? Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Joint Enterprise “Domain” of the community; What binds the community together Mutual Engagement Interacting in/as a community; Establishing norms & relationships Shared Repertoire Community “output”; resources, routines, stories
What Does This Look Like Online? Relational Proximity (Amin & Roberts, 2008) Power & Status Access & Accessibility http://socialmediadata.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/social-media-data-tracking.png
What is Professional Development? Learning what Learning how Learning to be Learning about Knowing that Duguid, P. (2005). “The art of knowing”: Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice. The Information Society, 21(2), 109-118.
Mapping Professional Identity http://alicekolandjian.weebly.com/uploads/1/1/0/2/11027632/6371567_orig.jpg http://thesweetsetup.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/4-basicmindmap.jpg
Knowledge Networks Distributed Cognition Knowledge is distributed across multiple individuals, environments, and artefacts (Gunawardena et al., 2009) Not all networks are communities of practice CoPs “entail identification with a mutually negotiated competence around a community of practice” (Farnsworth, Kleanthous, & Wenger-Trayner, 2016, p. 143) https://stdunstansdecimus.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/11.jpg
Mapping Professional Identity http://combiboilersleeds.com/image.php?pic=/images/individual/individual-9.jpg https://recruit-zone.com/files/userfiles/talentnet.jpg
The Virtual Community of Practice Where did your idea(l)s of “professional identity” come from? How are they reinforced? How are they shared or “taught”? https://dohanews.co/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/free-speech-online.jpg
Final Thoughts Recognize the complexities of & between “your” professional identity and “the” professional identity Professional development is a process, not an event Communities are not just spaces & places, but emerging ‘sites’ for social learning
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References Amin, A., & Roberts, J. (2008). Knowing in action: Beyond communities of practice. Research Policy, 37, 353-369. Duguid, P. (2005). “The art of knowing”: Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice. The Information Society, 21(2), 109-118. Farnsworth, V., Kleanthous, I., & Wenger-Trayner, E. (2016). Communities of practice as a social theory of learning: A conversation with Etienne Wenger. British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(2), 139-160. Gunawardena, C. N., Hermans, M. B., Sanchez, D., Richmond, C., Bohley, M., & Tuttle, R. (2009). A theoretical framework for building online communities of practice with social networking tools. Educational Media International, 46(1), 3-16. Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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