1st Edition

Communities of Practice in Higher Education Learning, Teaching, and Research

By Jonathan Tummons Copyright 2025
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing on research and practice, this key text provides a rich, detailed, and accessible guide to Communities of Practice (CoPs) theory and how to implement it within higher education. It takes a detailed look at how the theory is constructed, the research that it rests on, and the ways that it has been used and can be used in the future. Beginning by introducing CoP theory and the theory of... Read more

1. What Is a Community of Practice?  2. Where Is the Learning in a Community of Practice, and How Does It Happen?  3. Communities of Practice in Higher Education: What Can We Learn from the Research?  4. Setting Up a Learning Architecture  5. Communities of Practice: Expansions and Limitations  6. Constellations, Brokers, and Boundaries: How Communities of Practice Learn from and Work with Each Other  7. Assessment Within a Community of Practice  8. Research and Communities of Practice

Biography

Jonathan Tummons is Professor of Education at Durham University, UK.