Building Communities of Practice in Higher Education

Auteur

Camila Devis-Rozental is a Principal Academic in Socio-emotional Intelligence (SEI) and Service Excellence at Bournemouth University, UK.

Susanne Rose Clarke is Head of Service Excellence at Bournemouth University, UK.

Texte du rabat

Drawing from a diverse range of expert voices within the field, this key work explores how communities of practice are an effective tool for supporting successful collaboration, whilst also creating the foundations for lasting institutional change.

Contenu

1. Introduction; 2. Communities of practice as a mechanism for regenerating universities; 3. Putting people at the heart of HE: Communities of practice as humanising spaces; 4. Cultivating knowledge: The evolution of communities of practice and their role in interdisciplinary collaboration; 5. Peering over the parapet; using communities of practice to break down silos of working practice; 6. Enabling organisational change and strategic alignment, disrupting hierarchies and mapping career pathways through communities of practice; 7. Knowledge co-production or epistemic injustice? Attending to questions of power in transdisciplinary technology communities of practice; 8. Higher education practice: Enabling transformation in individuals and groups; 9. Drawing edges: A community of practice set up during doctoral studies to explore the boundaries of drawing practice and research; 10. Conclusion and looking to the future of communities of practice in higher education