- The basic argument is that communities of practice and everywhere and we are generally involved in a number of them whether it's work, school, home or etc. These communities are defined by a pursuit of shared enterprise. - Joint enterprise continually negotiated by members - Mutual engagement - Shared communal resources - Simply by being a part of these communities enable us to learn. Success is a function of how well we fit in. Rather than asking what kind of cognitive processes and conceptual structures are involved they ask what kind of engagements provide the context for learning. - Communities of practice are often self organising and share the benefits of [[Associational Life]] and [[Social Capital]] - Learning is not seen as the acquisition of knowledge but as a process of social participation. The purpose is not to learn *from* talk but to learn *to* talk. - We have seen this with two migrant learners join one of our learning centres. It felt as though their progress was basically defined by how much they participated in the space and how much they felt they belonged. --- Lave, Jean, and Etienne Wenger. "Communities of practice." (1996) - [Link](https://valenciacollege.edu/faculty/development/teaching-learning-academy/documents/CommunityofPractice.pdf)