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“What if We Are Doing This All Wrong?”: Sequestering and a Community of Practice
Author(s) -
BRADLEY VICKI L.
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.2004.35.3.345
Subject(s) - apprenticeship , creativity , interview , embodied cognition , identity (music) , pedagogy , sociology , perception , psychology , community of practice , medical education , social psychology , epistemology , medicine , aesthetics , anthropology , philosophy , linguistics , neuroscience
This article explores how sequestered novices within a community of practice struggled with their reliance on individual learning resources and identity development. In a year‐long study at a child‐care center that included methods of participant‐observation, interviewing, videotaping, and apprenticeship, five inexperienced child‐care teachers, including me, relied heavily on our creativity, recollections, learning by doing, and embodied experiences. I suggest that future studies of communities of practice examine instances of sequestering and include the perceptions of novices.