Community Concept of Practice: a look at investigations in the area of Education and Teaching in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Rodrigues, Márcio Urel
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Silva, Luciano Duarte, Miskulin, Rosana Giaretta Sguerra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Educação Matemática (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistasbemsp.com.br/index.php/REMat-SP/article/view/31
• topic: Community of Practice; Etienne Wenger; Teacher training; State of art; Comunidade de Prática; Formação de Professores; Estado da Arte; Educação Matemática

The essay comes up with an excerpt related to an aspect of the doctoral research that was developed at Unesp - Rio Claro. This study has the purpose of understanding the conceptual development of Communities of Practice in the three works produced by Etienne Wenger, and also to identify the reverberation of this theoretical reference in research in the area of Education and Teaching in Brazil. For this purpose, we have accomplished a mapping of the researches in Education and Teaching following the procedures of the investigations of the type "state of art". Thus, the corpus was established by 46 investigations (20 dissertations and 26 theses) defended between the period from 2005 to 2016. These procedures have led us to identify the conceptual development of the Communities of Practice in the three works that Etienne Wenger participates as author. We have realized that after the publication of his third work - Wenger, Mcdermott and Snyder (2002) -, Wenger presents the concept of Community of Practice close to the definition emphasized in that work. In spite of that, we have found out that there is a predominance of the work Wenger (1998) in the investigations that use the theoretical assumptions of Communities of Practice in the area of Education and Teaching in Brazil; We also have noticed the predominance of four postgraduate programs of four HEIs - Unesp - Rio Claro / SP; Unicamp - Campinas / SP; PUC - São Paulo / SP; And UEL - Londrina / PR - in Brazil that develop investigations in the area of Education and Teaching with the assumptions of Communities of Practice from the perspective of Etienne Wenger in his three most important works.