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Essential Learning Theories & Frameworks in IDT: Community of Practice

Community of Practice

Developed by Lave and Wenger, this refers to a group of individuals who share a common interest or profession and engage in collective learning through regular interaction.

Community of Practice: Resources

Boada, D. A. (2022). Cultivating an online teacher community of practice around the instructional conversation pedagogy: A social network analysis. Educational Technology Research and Development, 70(1), 289–319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10058-9

Button, B. L. G., Cook, C., & Goertzen, J. (2023). Impact of a professional development session based on learner evaluations within a preceptor community of practice. Medical Teacher, 45(7), 732–739. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2022.2155121

de Carvalho-Filho, M. A., Tio, R. A., & Steinert, Y. (2020). Twelve tips for implementing a community of practice for faculty development. Medical Teacher, 42(2), 143–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/0142159X.2018.1552782

Farnsworth, V., Kleanthous, I., & Wenger-Trayner, E. (2016). Communities of practice as a social theory of learning: A conversation with Etienne Wenger. British Journal of Educational Studies, 64(2), 139–160. https://doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2015.1133799

Hakkola, L., Ruben, M. A., McDonnell, C., Herakova, L. L., Buchanan, R., & Robbie, K. (2021). An equity-minded approach to faculty development in a community of practice. Innovative Higher Education, 46(4), 393–410. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-020-09540-8

Lave, J., Resnick, L. B., Teasley, S. D., & Levine, J. M. (1991). Situating learning in communities of practice. In Perspectives on socially shared cognition (Vol. 2, pp. 63–82). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/10096-003

Luguetti, C., Aranda, R., Nuñez Enriquez, O., & Oliver, K. L. (2019). Developing teachers’ pedagogical identities through a community of practice: Learning to sustain the use of a student-centered inquiry as curriculum approach. Sport, Education and Society, 24(8), 855–866. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1476336

Lunda, A., Frommherz, A., Bolton, W. G., Cook, C., Dude, B., Leask, N., Littlefield, R., McCarty, J., Puustinen, S., & Vaska, N. (2024). Supporting the cultural identity development of indigenous youth: Findings from an indigenous educators’ community-of-practice. Education Sciences, 14(12), 1272. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci14121272

Muhayimana, T., & Hill, S. E. (2023). Learning the ropes together: New faculty co-mentoring in a “mandatory” community of practice. Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice, 23(7), 143–156. https://doi.org/10.33423/jhetp.v23i7.6019

Tummons, J. (2017). Learning architectures in higher education : Beyond communities of practice. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474261722

Walker, J. P., Allen, W. E., Clevenger, L., Hosbein, K. N., Kennedy, A. M., Vance-Chalcraft, H., & Whiting, B. (2023). Course-based undergraduate research experiences as a community of practice (CoP). Journal of Chemical Education, 100(7), 2520–2528. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00844

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