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

Barton, David (edited); Tusting, Karin (edited)

ISBN 10: 0521544920 / ISBN 13: 9780521544924

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

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First edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 243pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (37/1). N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1630600576122

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Titre : Beyond Communities of Practice - Language, ...

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

Date d'édition : 2005

Reliure : Soft cover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : No Jacket

Edition : 1st Edition

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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.