Community Practices…sounds like a cover word for witch or voodoo village sacrificing. I crack myself up. Well I think the whole idea behind this Community Practice is the engaging
in a community that you are a part of and taking from it consciously and subconsciously. Learning your place in the community and taking your part and using it to improve yourself as a person and the community itself. Being able to tap into your subconscious is something not many people can do unless they analyze themselves and/or have people do it for them.
In the article, Communities as a Practice: Learning as a Social System Wenger pointed out in a chart the intensity and organization of Relationships in a Practice. This chart was interesting to me because I can look at it and try to place myself in it somewhere and apply the Communities of Practice to school, family, work, friends, and even as a human being. Sorry got a lil deep there.
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i believe no matter how hard we try to fit in it wont work… its best to be yourself and let the community find you … ya know… Its wrong for people to base you around the people that are in your community and liekwise…. i enjoy all of your blogs because you add your own unique sense of humor!!! keep blogging and i will keep reading!
I think it is hard to fit yourself into a community. People do it all of the time, but growing with a community and helping it to find an identity seems to be a better way. Rather than trying to apply the Communities of Practice, you should just do what you are doing now, get involved and stay on top of it. You seem to be pretty good at it.
I’m interested by your mention of the subconscious aspect of these communities, because I feel this plays a large part in what goes within them. The ability for a community to pass on information to its members is something that I think often happens unconsciously, or at least not intentionally. I often share conversations with my community on topics that have nothing to do with my current problems at work, but I still manage to get information that helps me at work because of these talks. Often, this information is stored in a very unconscious way, and it only becomes useful once a problem arises that calls upon that information. As mentioned in these articles, I believe this subconscious angle is a big reason that communities of interest are separate from project teams. While a project team has a conscious, clear goal to tackle, a community of practice forms because of broader, often unconscious needs, including social needs for belonging and acceptance.