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Our understanding of “communities of practice” originates within the theoretical framework of situated cognition, which itself is rooted in socio-cultural theory (Vygotsky, 1978) and criticism of mainstream educational psychology (i.e., the tendency of behaviorists to separate learning and cognition from the context in which learning takes place) (Brown, Collins, & Duguid, 1989). By expanding the theoretical framework of situated cognition, the term “communities of practice” is able to describe systematic group behaviors exhibited when learning takes place in situ.
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(2009). Theoretical Foundation. In: Communities of Practice. Information Science and Knowledge Management, vol 13. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85424-1_2
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