Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice by Chris Blackmore

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice by Chris Blackmore

Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice is a collection of classical and contemporary writing associated with learning and systemic change in contexts ranging from cities, to rural development to education to nursing to water management to public policy.

From the reviews:

“This collection of essays, starting with the work of Donald Schön and Geoffrey Vickers, and concluding with the work of Richard Bawden and Etienne Wenger among other contemporaries, is brought together by Chris Blackmore, senior lecturer in environmental and developmental systems at the Open UniversityIt is appropriate for a seminar in communities of practice (CoP) or learning theory. … This is appropriate for a novice reader.” (Brad Reid, ACM Computing Reviews, March, 2011)

Chris Blackmore is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Development Systems at the Open University. She develops open learning courses in systems and in environmental decision making at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her main research area, in which she has a range of publications, is in learning systems and communities of practice for environmental decision making, including issues of social learning, systems thinking, systemic change, sustainability and responsibility.

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ISBN 13	9781849961325
ISBN 10	1849961328
Title	Social Learning Systems and Communities of Practice
Author	Chris Blackmore
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Springer London Ltd
Year published	2010-05-31
Number of pages	225
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