Learning for a small planet
Description
Author, consultant and visiting lecturer to the University of Manchester, Professor Etienne Wenger is a leading expert on communities of practice. His keynote lecture to PGCE students, entitled Learning for a Small Planet, incorporates his theory of communities of practice. He starts the lecture using bibliographic analogies to discuss the nature of learning and learning institutions and to illustrate how learning should not be restricted to the traditional four walls of the classroom where education is separated from business and civic domains. Instead, he advocates it should be a lifelong exploration through myriad experiences - learning should be understood in the context of multi-scale social systems which are dynamic communities of practice and through which learning shapes learners identities as life trajectories of multimembership.
Runtime
43 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2008
Database
Alexander Street
Direct Link
Similar Films
How to video series for educators. How to scaffold instruction for student success
Jude Kelly
Tony Buzan
Extended services
The Key To Consciousness. A Journey Into The Stuff Of Thoughts
Thinking About Thinking. Metacognition
The learning classroom. Introduction to learning theory. How people learn. Session 1
Assumptions
The second age .. 5-10
Learner expectations
Spark
Extended school
School matters. Thinking skills
The role of SEAL
Expert analysis