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Scratching beneath the Surface of Communities of (Mal)practice
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Pemberton, Jon; Mavin, Sharon; Stalker, Brenda – Learning Organization, 2007
Purpose: This paper seeks to surface less positive aspects of communities of practice (CoPs), regardless of emergent or organisationally managed, grounded in political-power interactions. Examples are provided from the authors' experiences of a research-based CoP within UK higher education. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is primarily…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Political Issues, Politics of Education, Researchers