Reflections about an apprentice participation in a Community of Practice

• Autor(a) principal: Polifemi, Marcos Cesar
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Veras
• Texto Completo: http://site.veracruz.edu.br:8087/instituto/revistaveras/index.php/revistaveras/article/view/144
• topic: Community of practice; learning; legitimate peripheral participation; distance education; Comunidade de Prática; aprendizagem; participação periférica legítima; educação à distância

In this article, after a discussion about the concept of communities and a reflection about some of the elements that are common to different types of communities, I will analyze the initiation process of a novice participant in a Community of Practice under the perspective of his peripheral legitimate participation (LAVE; WENGER, 1990). The case study (NUNAN, 1992) was conducted through the analysis of the interactions sustained in an online continuing education course aimed at academic coordinators. It revealed the emergence of discourse strategies that emphasize the importance of one assuming an explicit apprentice attitude as a way to be accepted in an ongoing teacher education study group and, by doing so, helping in the constitution of an appropriate context for collaboration and learning to occur.