Beyond Communities of Practice: Language Power and Social Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives)

ISBN 10: 0521544920 / ISBN 13: 9780521544924

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Titre : Beyond Communities of Practice: Language ...

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

Date d'édition : 2005

Reliure : Paperback

Etat : Good

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Synopsis :

This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of 'communities of practice'.

À propos des auteurs:

David Barton is Professor of Language and Literacy in the Department of Linguistics at Lancaster University. He is Director of the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre. His main work has been concerned with carrying out detailed studies of literacy practices in different domains of life and with rethinking the nature of literacy in contemporary society.

Karin Tusting is a Research Associate at the Literacy Research Centre at Lancaster University. She is currently working on the Adult Learners' Lives project, an ethnography study of the relationship between learning and other aspects of people's lives, working with adult literacy, numeracy, and ESOL learners.