Kate wrote:
>I am coming
>to the conclusion that the major challenge is to maintain the fluidity
>rather than to institutionalise the new forms.
I agree and I'm wondering, can the fluidity, Kate was talkking about, itself
be institutionalized?
Eugene Matusov
PS Kate, can you provide references for Etienne Wenger (in press), please.
At 03:54 PM 7/5/96 +1000, Kathryn Crawford wrote:
>I have been most struck by the discussion of Jay and Eugene about "open
>communities". In my work at the moment I am struggling to support and
>maintain an open community of multidisciplinary researchers and colleagues
>as a means to make/support change in very established and rigid
>institutional settings. My experience suggests that maybe we have always
>underestimated the extent that most communities are open and blurry about
>the edges and that if respect and practice are made central to membership
>then open communities seem to flourish in a liminal and very fluid and
>ephemoral way within the cracks of the more stable institutional structures
>Etienne Wenger (in press) describes the multiplicity of communities to
>which people can and do belong in his communities of practice. I am coming
>to the conclusion that the major challenge is to maintain the fluidity
>rather than to institutionalise the new forms.
>
>Kate
>
>
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