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

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005

Beschreibung

First edition / First Print. Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 243pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions, no creasing to spine. (37/1).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1630600576122

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Beyond Communities of Practice - Language, Power, and Social Context (Learning is Doing: Social, Cognitive, and Computational Perspectives)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0521544920
• ISBN-13: 9780521544924
• Bindung: Soft cover
• Ausgabe: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

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

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.