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 Wenger's foundational contribution, developed with Jean Lave in Situated Learning (1991), was the claim that meaningful learning is inseparable from participation in ongoing social practice. Studying apprenticeships as the first replicable case, Lave and Wenger argued that "meaning is socially negotiated — learning, thinking, and knowledge are relations among people in activity in, with, and arising from the socially and culturally structured world." Their pivotal concept, "legitimate peripheral participation," describes how newcomers enter a community on its periphery and move toward fuller engagement as their identities and competences develop together. Legitimate peripheral participation, they wrote, is both "the development of knowledgeable skilled identities in practice" and "the reproduction and transformation of communities of practice" — a conceptual bridge between theories of situated activity and theories of social reproduction. In his solo follow-up Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (1998), Wenger laid out four premises of an integrative social theory of learning: humans are social beings; knowledge is competence in valued enterprises; knowing is active engagement in the world; and meaning is what learning ultimately seeks to produce. Wenger's foundational contribution, developed with Jean Lave in Situated Learning (1991), was the claim that meaningful learning is inseparable from participation in ongoing social practice. Studying apprenticeships as the first replicable case, Lave and Wenger argued that "meaning is socially negotiated — learning, thinking, and knowledge are relations among people in activity in, with, and arising from the socially and culturally structured world." Their pivotal concept, "legitimate peripheral participation," describes how newcomers enter a community on its periphery and move toward fuller engagement as their identities and competences develop together. Legitimate peripheral participation, they wrote, is both "the development of knowledgeable skilled identities in practice" and "the reproduction and transformation of communities of practice" — a conceptual bridge between theories of situated activity and theories of social reproduction. In his solo follow-up Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (1998), Wenger laid out four premises of an integrative social theory of learning: humans are social beings; knowledge is competence in valued enterprises; knowing is active engagement in the world; and meaning is what learning ultimately seeks to produce.
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-  * Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge University Press. 
-  * Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press. 
-  * Brown, J. S., Collins, A., & Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Educational Researcher, 18(1), 32–42. 
-  * Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215. 
  
 ==== Core Dimensions of Communities of Practice ==== ==== Core Dimensions of Communities of Practice ====
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 **4. Identity:** learning as becoming, as the trajectories by which we shape who we are and who we are becoming. **4. Identity:** learning as becoming, as the trajectories by which we shape who we are and who we are becoming.
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-  * Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of practice: Learning, meaning, and identity. Cambridge University Press. 
-  * 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. 
-  * Li, L. C., Grimshaw, J. M., Nielsen, C., Judd, M., Coyte, P. C., & Graham, I. D. (2009). Evolution of Wenger's concept of community of practice. Implementation Science, 4(1), 11. 
  
 ==== The Architecture of CoPs: Four Dualities ==== ==== The Architecture of CoPs: Four Dualities ====
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 **4. Governance:** the interplay of stewarding (alignment, standardization) and emergent (innovation, risk-taking) modes by which a system becomes a learning system. **4. Governance:** the interplay of stewarding (alignment, standardization) and emergent (innovation, risk-taking) modes by which a system becomes a learning system.
  
-  * Wenger, E. (2010). Communities of practice and social learning systems: The career of a concept. In Social learning systems and communities of practice (pp. 179–198). 
-  * Wenger-Trayner, E., Fenton-O'Creevy, M., Hutchinson, S., Kubiak, C., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (Eds.). (2014). Learning in landscapes of practice: Boundaries, identity, and knowledgeability in practice-based learning. Routledge. 
-  * Wesley, P. W., & Buysse, V. (2001). Communities of practice: Expanding professional roles to promote reflection and shared inquiry. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 21(2), 114–123. 
  
 ==== Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces ==== ==== Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces ====
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 **8. Transformative value:** fundamental changes in practice, identity, or the social field itself. **8. Transformative value:** fundamental changes in practice, identity, or the social field itself.
  
-  * Wenger, E., Trayner, B., & de Laat, M. (2011). Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and networks: A conceptual framework. Ruud de Moor Centrum. 
-  * Wenger, E., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (2020). Learning to make a difference: Value creation in social learning spaces. Cambridge University Press. 
-  * Buch, A. (2021). Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner (2020). In Learning to make a difference. Value creation in social learning spaces: Book review. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 11(1), 129–132. 
-  * Acai, A., Ahmad, A., Fenton, N., Graystone, L., Phillips, K., Smith, R., & Stockley, D. (2018). The 3M national teaching fellowship: A high impact community of practice in higher education. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 6(2), 50–66. 
  
 ==== Wenger's Works ==== ==== Wenger's Works ====
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   * 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.   * 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.
   * Wenger, E., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (2020). Learning to make a difference: Value creation in social learning spaces. Cambridge University Press.   * Wenger, E., & Wenger-Trayner, B. (2020). Learning to make a difference: Value creation in social learning spaces. Cambridge University Press.
-  * Acai, A., Ahmad, A., Fenton, N., Graystone, L., Phillips, K., Smith, R., & Stockley, D. (2018). The 3M national teaching fellowship: A high impact community of practice in higher education. Teaching and Learning Inquiry, 6(2), 50–66. 
-  * Bandura, A. (1971). Social learning theory. General Learning Corporation. 
-  * Bandura, A. (1977). Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. Psychological Review, 84(2), 191–215. 
-  * Bransford, J., Brown, A., & Cocking, R. (Eds.). (2000). How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school (Expanded ed.). National Academy Press. 
-  * Brown, J. S., Collins, A., & Duguid, P. (1989). Situated cognition and the culture of learning. Educational Researcher, 18(1), 32–42. 
-  * Buch, A. (2021). Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner (2020). Learning to make a difference: Book review. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 11(1), 129–132. 
-  * Contu, A. (2014). On boundaries and difference: Communities of practice and power relations in creative work. Management Learning, 45(3), 289–316. 
-  * Gómez, R. L., & Suárez, A. M. (2021). Extending impact beyond the community: Protocol for a scoping review of evidence of the impact of communities of practice on teaching and learning in higher education. International Journal of Educational Research Open, 2, 100048. 
-  * Li, L. C., Grimshaw, J. M., Nielsen, C., Judd, M., Coyte, P. C., & Graham, I. D. (2009). Evolution of Wenger's concept of community of practice. Implementation Science, 4(1), 11. 
-  * Omidvar, O., & Kislov, R. (2014). The evolution of the communities of practice approach. Journal of Management Inquiry, 23(3), 266–275. 
-  * Wesley, P. W., & Buysse, V. (2001). Communities of practice: Expanding professional roles to promote reflection and shared inquiry. Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 21(2), 114–123. 
-  * Yi, P. (2022). Teachers' communities of practice in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: Will innovation in teaching practices persist and prosper? Journal of Curriculum and Teaching, 11(5), 241. 
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