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Communities of practice are networks that emerge from a desire to work more effectively or to understand work more deeply among members of a particular specialty or work group. They focus on learning, competence and performance, bridging the gap between organisational learning and strategy topics and generating new insights for theory and practice.
Research
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- Apprenticeship
- Collaborative professional development
- Communities of learning
- Professional development
- Providers of education and training
- Students
- Teacher training
Recent publications
- Apprentice or student?: the structures of construction industry vocational education and training in Denmark and Sweden and their possible consequences for safety learning
- Can learning communities boost success of women and minorities in STEM?: evidence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology [US]
- Collaborative learning processes in the context of a public health professional development program: a case study
- Continuing professional development for a diverse VET practitioner workforce
- Creating sustainable societies: developing emerging professionals through transforming current mindsets [US]
- Emerging partnership practices in VET provision in the senior years of schooling in Australia
- Librarians as teachers: forming a learning and teaching community of practice [Australia]
- Local skills case study
- Shifting practices in digital workplace learning: an integrated approach to learning, knowledge management, and knowledge sharing
- Skilling business graduates for an uncertain future [Australia]
- Teacher CPD delivered by employers: what works? [UK]
- The Irish Quality Assurance Network for Vocational Education and Training (IQAVET): collaborating for impact in quality assurance: together across Europe
- The learning potential of boundary crossing in the context of product introduction
- Training of FE teachers with occupational/vocational experiences: an approach using collaboration and evidence-based research
Suggested reading
- Communities of practice reshaping training partnerships in Australian vocational education and training
- Creating community: one institution’s experience with communities of practice [US]
- Keeping up to date: continuing professional development for health workers in developing countries [international]
- Situated learning in communities of practice as a research topic (book chapter) [international]
- Waldorf schools as communities of practice for AVE and social sustainability (book chapter) [Australia]
Resources
- ApprenticeshipUSA Community of Practice
- Cedefop research arena (CEDRA - project now closed) [Europe]
- Communities of Learning/ Kahui Ako [New Zealand]
- Communities of practice (NCVER) [Australia]
- Communities of practice and social learning systems (article)
- Communities of practice in education (COPE) [Europe]
- Communities of practice: the organizational frontier
- e-Communities (Cedefop) [Europe]
- European Research Network in Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
- John Mitchell and Associates
- Learning through participation between plumbers, apprentices and vocational teachers in communities of practice (conference paper) [Europe]
- NCVER Building Researcher Capacity Community of Practice Scholarship Program
- ODI Toolkit: Colloboration mechanisms: communities of practice
- Pathways support for practitioners: information and connections [Australia]
- Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
- VET providers group
