scholarly journals Successful talent development environments in female Scandinavian Handball

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 16-25
Author(s):  
Louise Kamuk Storm ◽  
Mette Krogh Christensen ◽  
Lars Tore Ronglan
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Talent Development ◽  
Legitimate Peripheral Participation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Peripheral Participation ◽  
The Way

Talent development is a sociocultural affair. The social learning perspective is rarely used for the study of talent development in sport, although it is broadly known in the domain of education. This article examines the way in which communities of practice are connected within two exceptional successful talent development environments, what characterises talents’ movements across communities of practice within the club, and what characterises the interactions between talents, senior players and coaches. Drawing on Wenger’s notion of communities of practice, constellations of interconnected practices and boundary encounters, it identifies how the two environments were characterised by (1) a well-functioning constellation of several CoPs, (2) opportunities for talents to participate and engage in various CoPs (3), individually adjusted feedback from coach to player combined with communication between the players with different positions in the CoPs and not only coach instructions, and (4) senior elite players’ engaging behaviours in regard to newcomers in the boundary encounters and thereby legitimate peripheral participation opportunities for talented players. (5) The coaches were the key to coordinate the interconnected practices and social interactions between the ‘youth CoP’ and ‘senior elite CoP’.

scholarly journals Etienne and Beverly Wenger-Trayner (2020). Learning to Make a Difference. Value Creation in Social Learning Spaces, Cambridge University Press, ix + 279 pages

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Buch
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Legitimate Peripheral Participation ◽  
Learning Spaces ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Education Organization ◽  
Cognitive Scientist ◽  
Learning As A Process

In their work, in their leisure time – yes, indeed in all walks of life – people interact with one another, have new experiences, come to know new things, and learn new things about their environment and the world they inhabit. But how? Philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, cognitive scientists, and many more have theorized this fundamental question and developed theories of learning. Thirty years ago, anthropology professor Jean Lave and cognitive scientist Etienne Wenger developed a social theory of learning that conceptualize learning as a process of situated cognition – legitimate peripheral participation – in communities of practice (Lave & Wenger 1991). This theory – and specifically the concept of communities of practice (CoP) that Etienne Wenger later explored in more detail (Wenger 1998) – have become an influential theoretical and analytical inspiration for researchers in education, organization studies, sociology, social-psychology, and the entire range of disciplines that are preoccupied with the study of social life and working life. (.....) Now, 30 years after the introduction of the theory, one of its proponents and found- ers, Etienne Wenger-Trayner, together with his spouse Beverly Wenger-Trayner, propose a new – and in their view – more encompassing social learning theory.  

scholarly journals WHO IS GRETA THUNBERG? ECHOES OF THE WORLD CLIMATE DISCUSSION IN THE DISCOURSE OF MOROCCAN INDEPENDENT MEDIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-74
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Pałka-Lasek
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Social Role ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Material ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Independent Media ◽  
The Way

The article is an attempt to present the response drawn in the Arabic independent media by the world discussion on the figure of the Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2019. Using the tools for discourse analysis, the research focuses mainly on the way the activist’s image is created in the context of the social role assumed by the Internet press media as news publishers, covering the plane of language, transmitting ideas and social interactions. Articles from the Moroccan Internet journal Hespress (for several years one of the most often visited website among the Moroccan e-community), come from the period from 27 September to 29 December 2019, were used as the research material.

Personhood

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omri Elisha
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Relational Networks ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Evangelical Theology

This chapter draws on fieldwork on evangelical megachurches in Knoxville, Tennessee. Focusing on the social interactions and spiritual aspirations of a men's fellowship group, this chapter argues that these groups should not be read in solely individualistic terms, as only reinforcing Protestant ethics of self-discipline and self-actualization. As this ethnographic involvement in evangelicalism as a lived religion reveals, evangelicals are taught to become involved in the spiritual and emotional lives of others and to allow such involvement by others. This emphasis on what the chapter terms the “immersive sociality” of these relational networks and communities of practice thus challenges—without completely displacing—the long-standing popular and academic assumption that the values of evangelical theology are primarily individuating in their emphasis and effects.

scholarly journals Central practitioners’ developing legitimate peripheral participation in a community of practice for changing schools

2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
David Woo
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Legitimate Peripheral Participation ◽  
Font Size ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Peripheral Participation ◽  
Organisational Factors

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p>As new technologies continue to shape society, there has been a greater need for communities of practice to facilitate changing teaching and learning practices through technology in schools. Legitimate peripheral participation through these communities of practice has become an essential means to spread and support this technology integration movement, but understanding this participation in communities has been limited. This paper reports on a study of how central practitioners developed legitimate peripheral participation episodes in an inter-organisational, international community of practice. It describes the qualitative, case study approach to the study, and outlines the community of practice, its central practitioners and the legitimate peripheral participation episodes in which they participated. The paper presents and discusses essential central practitioner individual and organisational factors which enabled the continuity and change of legitimate peripheral participation episodes in the community. Individual factors to emerge from the study include central practitioners’ desire for continuous professional development and individual agency. Organisational factors include an organisation’s distinctive mission, its distinctive roles, and constant negotiation, including conflicts of interest, between organisations and their members. The paper concludes with considerations of the value and relevance of legitimate peripheral participation in an inter-organisational community of practice for changing practices.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 28.35pt 0pt; line-height: normal;"> </p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>

scholarly journals I Am Worthy, I Want, and I Can: The Social Implications of Practicing Personal Development

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Trifan
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
The Social ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
The Way

Abstract This paper addresses the consequences of practicing personal development upon the daily life and interactions of individuals. In this context, I will describe how practitioners are applying the principles and techniques of personal development in order to transform the way individuals are relating to themselves and to others. In parallel, I will analyse how the ideology of personal development is assumed, by negotiation, in connection with the neoliberal project. This article aims to bridge a gap in the literature by showing how practicing personal development can restructure everyday experiences, emphasizing the negotiation of the intrinsic values of personal development techniques and how it (re)configures relationships and social interactions.

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