The Praxis of Communities of Practice

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1. COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE “Working and Learning Together”
2. WHAT? Facts SO WHAT? Insights NOW WHAT? This is what you can Do AGENDA “How Communities of Practice Promote Learning and Knowledge Sharing”
3. What is a Community of Practice?
4. Wenger et al. (2002, p4) defines communities of practice as: "...groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area by interacting on an on-going basis'.
5. Communities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor (Wenger- Trayner et al., 2023).
6. ➢ Therefore, we need to consider ways of professional learning that ‘focus not just on helping individuals to improve their practice but also on changing the organizational contexts in which they work’. ➢ Ultimately, we are dealing with complexity that requires a different approach. The knowledge gained through traditional and tailored trainings is limited because they do not address the changes and challenges impacting the practitioner. Traditional and Tailored Trainings is Limited
7. Communities of Practice (CoP) play a crucial role because: • they address the challenges and concerns practitioners encounter in their practice. • rather than ‘transferring’ or ‘applying’ learning from the classroom to practice, CoPs support the integration of different perspectives and forms of knowledge within the practice itself. • they repeatedly been linked to knowledge management to understand and support social and relational ways of sharing knowledge in organizations. Community of Practice (CoP) support Learning and Knowledge Sharing
8. Research on communities of practice has shown that for knowledge exchanges to develop, there must first be a certain amount of trust between people, and they must have got to know each other to some degree. Then, once trust has been established, a project or an objective—sometimes simply a common interest in a theme or subject— will create a discussion point (Tremblay, 2005; Tremblay, 2004a, 2004b).”
9. A Structural Model: Domain, Community, and Practice
10. Communities of Practice Can Also Develop Strategic Capabilities
11. SO WHAT? Insights
12. CoPs Promote Learning which: ➢ is tightly linked to practice ➢ emerges in the context of work ➢ is deeply social and relational ➢ is enabled or hindered through the social and material arrangements in organizations.
13. It has been argued that a CoP is able to respond to ‘complex issues and foster collective resilience’ because ‘a broad community of peers and experts from different disciplines frees the collective intelligence and social imagination’ (Goglio-Primard et al., 2020, p. 673). Communities of practice can support a diverse range of staff to be focusing on the issues that matter to them and in turn allow the organization to hear and learn from different perspectives.
14. NOW WHAT? This is what you can Do
15. Lifecycle
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