Wednesday, April 19, 2006

A living curriculum? Discussion Question # 5

Wenger suggests that a community of practice “acts as a living curriculum for the apprentice?” http://www.ewenger.com/theory/communities_of_practice_intro_WRD.doc


What does this mean?

1 comment:

Robert Hughes Jr, PhD said...

This does pose some risks and certainly creates some problems for measuring outcomes, but Wenger and others suggest that the goal of learning needs to shift from learning particular content to learning to be a reflective, critically thinking practitioner (or learner). If that's the goal, we may have to take the risks and also rethink our systems of outcomes measurement.