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… There are intellectual reasons for telling this [communities of practice] story. It illustrates some of the very processes the resulting theory is meant to account for practices, communities, boundaries, and identities. And as a result, underlying this story is the outline of a theory of innovation based on communities of practice … Schools of education would focus on educational techniques, but it was also necessary to reconsider more fundamental assumptions about learning. In particular, it was important to look at the wide variety of ways people learn successfully in daily life … The concept of community of practice arose as a unit of analysis of learning in which we could find explanatory mechanisms, while placing at the core of our concerns the learner as a social being in the process of becoming … (from the Foreword)
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