A community of practice (CoP) is a group of people who "share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact...

the history of social work. The field of community practice social work encompasses community organizing and community organization, community building,...

An online community of practice (OCoP), also known as a virtual community of practice (VCoP), is a community of practice (CoP) that is developed and maintained...

immediate genealogical ties also define a sense of community, important to people's identity, practice, and roles in social institutions such as family...

of practice (often abbreviated as NoP) is a concept originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. This concept, related to the work on communities of...

Wikipedia: A New Community of Practice? is a 2009 book by British historian Dan O'Sullivan, published by Ashgate Publishing. The book takes an academic...

model based on the speech community as a fluid community of practice. A speech community comes to share a specific set of norms for language use through...

applied to the practices of civic leaders, activists, involved citizens, and professionals to improve various aspects of communities, typically aiming...

In a community of practice, duality refers to a tension between two forces which become a driving force for change and creativity. Wenger uses the concept...

change. Community of circumstance Community of inquiry Community of interest Community of position Community of place Community of practice Community of purpose...

A community of circumstance is similar to a community of practice, except that it is driven by position, circumstance or life experience rather than a...

same practices. These theories were not originally applied to the Internet or television. According to Anderson, the creation of imagined communities has...

Practice theory (or praxeology, theory of social practices) is a body of social theory within anthropology and sociology that explains society and culture...

population. Adopting a communities of practice approach, Eckert studied the stylistic development of a heterosexual marketplace or field of gender difference...

large, of belonging to a virtual community. At the same time, it showed that job engagement positively influences virtual communities of practice engagement...

may be a limited definition. Communities are defined as people coming together in pursuit of common aims or shared practices through any means, including...

discourse community and having evolved from forums and web forums, knowledge communities are now often referred to as a community of practice or virtual...

Semantic Interoperability Community of Practice (SICoP) is a group of people who seek to make the Semantic Web operational in their respective settings...

A community of position is distinguished from a community of practice in that it tends to be more personally focused. Communities of position built around...

efficiently. Communities of purpose can address a collective need, rather than a self-interest or defined goal typical of communities of practice and other...

newcomers become experienced members and eventually old timers of a community of practice or collaborative project. LPP identifies learning as a contextual...

of practice (often abbreviated as NoP), originated by John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid. This concept, related to the work on communities of practice by...

involvement. Community of action Community of circumstance Community of practice Community of innovation Commune Affinity group Henri, F.; Pudelko, B. (December...

Soaking is a sexual practice of inserting the penis into the vagina but not subsequently thrusting or ejaculating, reportedly used by some Mormons, also...

e-Learning Developers' Community of Practice or ElCoP is practice developed following a decision of European air navigation service (ANS) training providers...

support usability and findability; and an emerging community of practice focused on bringing principles of design, architecture and information science to...

The adoption of safe sex practices became more common in the late 1980s. It is also a recurring theme in pornography. The swingers community sometimes refers...

first proposed by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger as a model of learning in a community of practice. At its simplest, situated learning is learning that takes...

mid-season replacement. The Practice won many Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Series in 1998 and 1999. As part of the fictional universe...

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