So the situated learning book (and this last one) doesn't include material and
ideal things like artifacts/tools in the defintion of CoP?
on the other hand i suppose inclusion of 'the world' in the set of related
things includes everthing. but then why not say CoP is a set of relations
among everything?
To disagree with Mary, I think the inclusion of values in a theory of community
is important. To leave it out would be to exclude the theoretical hook into
the kinds of encounters Mary has in Barbershops, for the ways in which my
neighbor continues not to speak since the local skatepark development.
But i am concerned that together with the ill definition of community that mike
posted, there is also in wengers book a discussion of crossing community
boundaries -- how can one talk about movement across the boundaries when one
does not specify what they are? Not that this is an easy task .
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Bill Barowy
"Everything is a becoming, without beginning or end"
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