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

Barton; Tusting

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521836433 ISBN 13: 9780521836432

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

This book consists of a set of studies exploring the concept of 'communities of practice', which has been influential in social sciences, education, and management in recent years. Its main purpose is to emphasize the importance of areas such as language, power, and social context.

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Biografía del autor

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.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0521836433
• ISBN 13: 9780521836432
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256