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	Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger and communities of practice
		Etienne Wenger was a teacher who joined the Institute for Research on Learning, Palo Alto having gained a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from the University of California at Irvine.
		The basic argument made by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger is that communities of practice are everywhere and that we are generally involved in a number of them - whether that is at work, school, home, or in our civic and leisure interests.
		However, where Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger approached the area through an exploration of local encounters and examples, Ivan Illich started with a macro-analysis of the debilitating effects of institutions such as schooling.
	www.infed.org /biblio/communities_of_practice.htm (3036 words)

	storytelling knowledge management meaning building community caring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Etienne Wenger, a leading thinker on the relationship between community building and business and an originator of the concept of communities of practice, spoke at length with Seth Kahan about the value communities of practice offer associations and the reasons association leaders might choose to cultivate these groups in their organizations.
		Wenger is a champion of the potential use of communities of practice, but he is not a cheerleader: He is forthright about the considerable effort required to cultivate and effectively use these groups to an organization’s advantage.
		As Etienne Wenger contends, “a person’s identity is [his or her] engagement in the world,” and that identity is far more unique and complex than what is suggested by the relatively onedimensional industry or professional affiliations we offer.
	www.sethkahan.com /Resources_0EWenger.html (3657 words)

	Holland College
		Etienne Wenger (second left), a pioneer in the field of social learning theory and communities of practice, was in Charlottetown recently.
		Etienne Wenger, a pioneer in the field of social learning theory and communities of practice, is in Charlottetown this week meeting with researchers and educators as well as representatives of government, business and community organizations.
		Wenger is a globally recognized 'thought' leader in the field of learning theory and its application to organizations and business.
	www.hollandc.pe.ca /NewsReleases/news.php?mode=item&id=206&year=2005 (360 words)

	<<eLearnInternational 2004>> (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Etienne Wenger is a globally recognized thought leader in the field of communities of practice and their application to organizations.
		Etienne’s work is influencing a growing number of organizations in the private and public sectors.
		Etienne helps organizations apply these ideas through consulting, workshops, and public speaking, and courses, both online and face-to-face.
	www.elearninternational.co.uk /2004/test/2004/speakers/etienne_wenger.asp (242 words)

	efios knowledge management (welcome)
		Etienne Wenger to hold series of presentations in CP Square
		Another good reason to join CP Square now is that Etienne Wenger is going to give a series of sessions inside 'his' organization where he makes the transition from consultant to researcher in the field of communities of practice.
		Etienne has written a 36 page document entitled: "Learning for a small planet: a research agenda" that is probably of interest to all of us in the CPsquare community.
	www.efios.com /blog/2004/04/30.html (209 words)

	Internet Time Blog: Edinburgh -- Etienne Wenger
		Etienne Wenger is a social learning theorist who cut his teeth at the Institute for Research on Learning.
		Describing a wine, the friend said it was “purple in the nose.” This meant absolutely nothing to Etienne, because he is not a member of the wine-tasting community.
		Etienne suggests scrapping our industrial model of training and the notions that go with it.
	www.internettime.com /blog/archives/001245.html (543 words)

	MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - Wenger
		Etienne is also a founder of CPsquare, a cross-organizational, cross-sector community of practice on communities of practice.
		Etienne helps organizations apply these ideas through consulting, public speaking, and workshops, both online and face-to-face.
		His new research project is a broad, cross-sectoral investigation of the nature of learning and learning institutions at the dawn of the new millennium.
	cee.mit.edu /index.pl?iid=5096&isa=Category (234 words)

	Amazon.com: Cultivating Communities of Practice: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Cultivating Communities of Practice, consultants Etienne C. Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William Snyder take the concept to another level by describing how these groups might be purposely developed as a key driver of organizational performance in the knowledge age.
		Wenger, McDermott and Snyder spend much time explaining ways to organize, maintain and sustain communities of practice, which they define as groups that "share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and...
		Wenger, McDermott and Snyder draw on the past to describe the usefulness of a community of practice.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1578513308?v=glance (2793 words)

	Communities of Practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Etienne Wenger, Ph.D. Etienne Wenger is a globally recognized thought leader in the field of learning theory and its application to business.
		Etienne works with people interested in developing new kinds of organizational, technological, and educational designs that leverage the synergy between learning and community.
		Etienne is the author of numerous articles and books: (1) Artificial Intelligence and Tutoring Systems: Cognitive and Computational Approaches to the Communication of Knowledge (Morgan Kaufmann, 1987); (2) Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (Cambridge University Press, 1991, with anthropologist Jean Lave); and (3) Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning, and Identity (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
	www.dssc.org /frc/CommPracEW.htm (218 words)

	Cultivating Communities of Practice, by Etienne Wenger, et al. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Etienne Wenger is a sociologist who developed a theory of how groups of people interact at work and how they can be made more effective, which he called communities of practice.
		This book, written with two co-authors, is an extension of that theory, explaining how to specifically apply his theory to real-world business situations, with examples from their consulting work.
		Wenger's basic theory centers around the components necessary to make a community function in the work environment, especially in the "knowledge economy".
	www.nehrlich.com /book/cultivatingcommunities.html (499 words)

	LiNE Zine - Issue 1 - Learning in Communities
		To be a successful, high-performance organization in the new economy, your enterprise will not only need to embrace the vision of the learning organization; you will want to create and grow learning communities.
		Etienne Wenger and William Snyder, two leading practitioners of communities of practice, enlighten us with their of community-based learning experience and explain through real-world examples how and why such approaches work.
		Etienne and Bill are now organizing such a learning consortium on communities of practice.
	www.linezine.com /1/features/ewwslc.htm (1957 words)

	INTERNATIONAL EXECUTIVE WORKSHOP WITH ETIENNE WENGER
		If you are a business executive or a leader in the public sector, responsible for change, innovation or knowledge management, or a professional who leads/facilitates communities of practice, then you will be aware that the strategic value of communities needs to be acknowledged and appreciated if they are to grow and evolve.
		He is a pioneer of the "communities of practice" research, and many consider him the father of this rapidly growing field.
		Etienne is the author of "Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity" co-author of "Cultivating Communities of Practice," and the founder of CPsquare, an international community of community facilitators.
	www.psych.lse.ac.uk /complexity/Events/inter_execut_ws.htm (545 words)

	Communities of Practice (CoP): Selected Readings
		Wenger focuses on learning and discusses where and how it happens in organizations -- mainly in Communities of Practice.
		Wenger, the reigning authority on communities of practice, describes in detail the nature, life cycle and functioning of a community of practice.
		Wenger lays out the basics of CoPs in his first HBR article, asserting that they might well reinvent organizations -- if managers can learn to nourish and support them.
	home.att.net /~discon/KM/CoPReadings.htm (457 words)

	Knowledge Management: Not Just an IT Challenge
		Those two questions have long been central to the work of Etienne Wenger, an independent researcher, consultant and author.
		The 49-year-old Wenger, a native of Switzerland, has spent his career spreading the concept of "communities of practice"—groups of people within organizations working together to create and apply knowledge.
		Wenger started out as a teacher, and then turned to computer science.
	www.cioinsight.com /print_article/0,3668,a=26907,00.asp (1898 words)

	Amazon.fr : Chroniques et points de vue Livres en anglais: Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Tous les livres en anglais de Etienne Wenger
		In Cultivating Communities of Practice, Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder argue that while communities form naturally, organizations need to become more proactive and systematic about developing and integrating them into their strategy.
		Etienne Wenger is a renowned expert and consultant on knowledge management and communities of practice in San Juan, California.
	www.amazon.fr /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/english-books/1578513308/reviews (1004 words)

	Anecdote: The CoP support team
		Etienne Wenger's slides from his recent visit to Melbourne and Canberra »
		Etienne Wenger calls it “enhancing member value for time spent.” The support team organises meetings, links members, features new members on the community’s website and a myriad of other tasks that help the community to connect and grow.
		They should have a good reputation among the community members, be natural facilitators, understand the principles of community development and are liked and respected by their constituents.
	www.anecdote.com.au /archives/2005/07/the_cop_support.html (494 words)

	Activities \| HCI: Human Centered Informatics Postgraduate Research School
		The point of departure for the course is Etienne Wenger's theory on "Communities of Practice".
		The aim is to move beyond this theory towards an understanding of both the genesis, use, and possible contributions to it.
		The course will be a mixture of lectures by Etienne Wenger, dialogues on selected themes from "Communities of practice", and dialogue on students' work based on Etienne Wenger's comments on abstracts submitted for the course
	www.hci.hum.aau.dk /activities/Wengerdescription.html (258 words)

	Knowledge-at-work: Wenger's doughnut KM model
		Etienne argues that domains, communities and practices provide the key structures to support learning, sharing and stewarding knowledge.
		When individuals come together around a passion, they tell stories, surface heuristics, share experience and insights, craft solutions, learn from each-other and define their domain, i.e., these communities self-manage their knowledge.
		Denham Grey draws attention to Etienne Wenger's idea that communities of practice can form the centre piece of a knowledge strategy.
	denham.typepad.com /km/2004/12/wenger.html (530 words)

	A Day in the Life: Transformation Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He talked about community going in unexpected directions prompted by members, for example, the agriculure PG that is looking at how to help farmers, researchers, and government bodies speak to each other.
		People brought together by a vision of community first proposed by Etienne Wenger and then carried forward by an alliance of innovators.
		I settled on one that asked how the seven design principles presented by Wenger and Snyder can serve as a foundation for possibilities and emergence.
	www.collegeteacher.org /blog/archive/transformation/transformation.html (2436 words)

	Penny Eckert's Web Page
		In its early years, IRL offered an open, intimate, interdisciplinary, and collaborative environment, and my time in that environment was without question the most important period in my intellectual development.
		It was at IRL that Jean and Etienne began to develop the construct of communities of practice, which became central to IRL's approach to learning.
		Eckert, Penelope, Shelley Goldman and Etienne Wenger 1997.
	www.stanford.edu /~eckert/csofp.html (692 words)

	ALT-C 2005: Keynote and Theme Speakers
		His new research project, "Learning for a small planet," is a broad, cross-sectoral investigation of the nature of learning and learning institutions at the dawn of the new millennium.
		Presentation used by Etienne Wenger during his 8/9/2005 keynote - [1.5 MB PDF].
		Summary note of Etienne's talk made by Stephen Downes.
	www.alt.ac.uk /altc2005/keynotes.html (1713 words)

	Interview with Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice — Knowledge Lab (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Interview with Etienne Wenger on Communities of Practice
		Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social Learning Theory and the concept of “Practiced Communities”.
		In addition to the interview we had the opportunity to tape Etienne Wengers full lecture which is available here (approx.
	www.knowledgelab.dk /now/e-portfolio/etienne_wenger (222 words)

	Journal of Knowledge Management Practice,
		Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William Synder, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, 2002
		The notion of communities of practice was first introduced more than ten years ago (Lave and Wenger, 1991).
		Since then, many scholars and practitioners have made reference in their work (Brown and Duguid, 1991; Eckert, 1993; Gherardi et al, 1998; Liedtka, 1999).
	www.tlainc.com /articl45.htm (2213 words)

	Community of Practice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger (1991) described a Community of Practice as "a set of relations among persons, activity and world, over time and in relation with other tangential and overlapping CoPs".
		The basic premiss developed by Lave and Wenger is that CoPs are everywhere and that we are involved in a number of them at work, school, and home.
		Also, see Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger - Community of Practice - 1991.
	www.sos.net /~donclark/com/com.html (307 words)

	Tending the Garden of Knowledge: - Special Libraries Association
		Consultant and speaker Etienne Wenger is widely regarded as perhaps the world's leading communities of practice "green thumb." We think his perspectives will help you tend to your organization's knowledge gardens more successfully.
		Dr. Wenger, let's begin with the central question: what is a "community of practice?"
		Well, a "community of practice" is a group of people who share an interest in a domain of knowledge, for instance, how to do open-heart surgery or how to write children's books.
	www.sla.org /content/Shop/Information/infoonline/2001/jul01/wenger.cfm?style=normal (2649 words)

	Activities \| HCI: Human Centered Informatics Postgraduate Research School
		No more registrations September 23 at 10 - 15: Research and PhD-seminar with Etienne Wenger: Beyond Communities of Practice III - Learning for a small planet.
		One-day research seminar with Etienne Wenger: Beyond 'communities of practice' II, on Friday September 3 from 10-15 (Description)
		Workshop with Etienne Wenger: "Beyond "Communities of Practice" on June 3-4.
	www.hci.hum.aau.dk /activities (962 words)

	Robert Paterson's Weblog: More on Identity - Motivation and Learning - Etienne Wenger
		More on identity and motivation from Etienne Wenger via Beyond Branding
		Wenger asserts that “identity” in the context of how
		This link will take you to a great interview with Wenger by Seth Kahan where these ideas are developed more completely
	smartpei.typepad.com /robert_patersons_weblog/2004/04/more_on_identit.html (1037 words)

	Communities of Practice - Special Libraries Association
		"It Takes a Community." Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder.
		"Seven Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice." Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder.
		Wenger, Etienne C., Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder.
	www.sla.org /content/resources/infoportals/COP.cfm (310 words)

	Communities of Practice
		International executive workshop lead by Etienne Wenger and George Pór at the London School of Economics, May 4 - 5, 2004.
		If you are a community leader or facilitator in the private or the public sector, or an executive who supports communities of practice, knowledge networks, and other forms of self-organizing engines of value-creation, then you may have already asked the two inter-related questions below, as many of you that we talked with recently:
		The Community Intelligence Labs crew offers community practitioners these webpages as a meeting place, in which we can accelerate the spread of best practices and share points of view on tough issues.
	www.co-i-l.com /coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml (463 words)

	Kablog TIP Presentation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The theory is primarily social rather than psychological, and originates from Lave and Wenger (1991).
		Knowledge needs to be presented in an authentic context, i.e., settings and applications that would normally involve that knowledge.
		Encourages the development of Wenger’s communities of practice or Wilson and Ryder’s dynamic learning communities which entails “groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and who interact regularly to learn how to do it better” (“Communities of Practice,” Wenger, 2004).
	kablog-tip.blogspot.com (840 words)

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