Communities of Practice: Critical Perspectives Book

Notes on contributors vii

1 Introduction. Communities of practice: a contested concept in flux Jason Hughes Nick Jewson Lorna Unwin 1

2 Critiquing theories of learning and communities of practice Alison Fuller 17

3 Lost in translation: communities of practice - the journey from academic model to practitioner tool Jason Hughes 30

4 From communities of practice to mycorrhizae Yrjö Engeström 41

5 Including the missing subject: placing the personal within the community Stephen Billett 55

6 Cultivating network analysis: rethinking the concept of 'community' within 'communities of practice' Nick Jewson 68

7 Theorizing sport as a community of practice: the coach-athlete relationship in British professional basketball Valerie Owen-Pugh 83

8 The transition to work and adulthood: becoming adults via communities of practice John Goodwin 96

9 English apprenticeship from past to present: the challenges and consequences of rampant 'community' diversity Lorna Unwin 109

10 Sexuality, gender and legitimate peripheral participation: an ethnographic study of a call centre Matthew J. Brannan 120

11 The learning trajectories of 'old-timers': academic identities and communities of practice in higher education Nalita James 131

12 Unemployment as a community of practice: tales of survival in the new Germany Vanessa Beck 144

13 Communities of practice in their place: some implications of changes in the spatial location of work Nick Jewson 156

14 Conclusion: further developments and unresolved issues Jason Hughes Nick Jewson Lorna Unwin 171

Index 179