Open AccessThree Decades of Communities of Practice Conceptualization
Author(s) -
Flávia Roberta Fernandes,
Helena de Fátima Nunes Silva,
Glauco Gomes de Menezes,
Jeanfrank T.D. Sartori,
João Augusto Wendt Mischiatti
Publication year - 2022
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.31686/ijier.vol10.iss4.3732
Subject(s) - conceptualization , relevance (law) , sociology , exploratory research , citation , content analysis , open access journal , social science , situated , qualitative research , scopus , library science , computer science , political science , artificial intelligence , medline , law
This article aims to identify the key authors and the theoretical foundations’ delineation of Lave and Wenger’s concept of Communities of Practice (CoPs) and its relationship with the learning theory. This exploratory and descriptive study applied a qualitative approach and bibliographic research based on Lave and Wenger’s (1991) publication “Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation”. All 48 references indicated in their research and the perceived relevance the authors have in academia. Data analysis was conducted using bibliometric and content analysis techniques with the aid of the NVivo software. The results showed the relevance of the key authors to the academy based on their number of publications, citation analysis, h-index, fields of study and contributions to those fields. We also identified that the concept of Communities of Practice is interdisciplinarity amongst anthropology, sociology, and psychology.