Making common sense: Leadership as meaning-making in a community of practice

1994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfred Drath ◽  
◽  
Charles Palus ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Meaning Making

Experiences of practice-based learning in phenomenographic perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Airi Rovio-Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Learning Object ◽  
Learning Context ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Training Centre ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The paper aims to examine, within the context of professional practice and learning, how designers collaboratively working in international teams experience practice-based learning and how such occasions contribute to professional development. Design/methodology/approach The paper introduces the cooperation project between Tibro Training Centre and Furniture Technology Centre Trust and its workshop context organized as practice-based learning. Participants’ learning context consisted of a mixture of professional practices allowing different logics and different cultures make up an innovative working site. Qualitative analysis of semi-structured interview data suggests that three phenomenographic hierarchical categories constitute the learning process: getting a recognized professional identity; perceiving new elements and expanding knowledge and seeing new aspects of design work and new steps of development in profession. Findings Cooperative practice-based learning is understood as social practice in a community of practice, and as continuous changes of the learning object due to that new aspects are discerned by the learners. These categories illustrate how participants’ meaning making and understanding of the learning object were expressed in cooperation as doings and sayings, as translation and as situated activities in a community of practice. Accordingly, it contributed to participants’ professional development in spite of their different professional educations and professional experiences. Practical implications More studies of practice-based learning environments in work places are needed that could help societies and companies to advance integrative efforts of new employees and new immigrants into an increasingly diverse globalized labour market. Originality/value The results suggest that understanding as well as content structure and meaning making of the learning object are intertwined constituent aspects of practice-based learning.

Composite ideophone-gesture utterances in the Ashéninka Perené ‘community of practice’, an Amazonian Arawak society from Central-Eastern Peru

Gesture ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Mihas
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Participatory Learning ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Basic Set ◽  
The World ◽  
Expert Novice ◽  
Learning Frameworks

Based on extensive fieldwork in Peru among Ashéninka Perené Arawaks, this study is a preliminary report on ideophone-gesture composites, with special focus on the meaning and functions of ideophone-gesture couplings within participatory learning frameworks. In expert-novice learning environments, ideophone-gesture composites appear to carry a unique cognitive-communicative load by forming scaffolding knowledge structures on the basis of the conventionalized ideophone-gesture inventories. The data are illustrative of Streeck’s (2009) vision of the hands’ involvement in meaning-making, i.e., that some of the ways in which depictive gestures evoke the world ascend from a basic set of everyday activities of hands in the world, within particular ecological and cultural settings.

scholarly journals Meaning and wellness: A comparative psychobiography on Helen Suzman and Beyers Naudé

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 186-197
Author(s):  
Carla Nel ◽  
Barbara Burnell ◽  
Paul J. P. Fouché ◽  
Roelf van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
South African ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Holistic Wellness ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Potential Sources ◽  
Construction Of Meaning ◽  
Political Milieu

This comparative psychobiographical study provides an in-depth exploration of meaning in the lives of two extraordinary individuals, Helen Suzman and Beyers Naudé. A comparison of the construction of meaning, as an important aspect of wellness within the holistic wellness model, is given for these South African anti-apartheid activists. Suzman (1917–2009) dedicated her career to opposing apartheid policy as a parliamentary politician. Naudé (1915–2004) was a renowned public figure dedicated to social justice in his role as a theologian. The holistic wellness model views the Neo-Adlerian life task of spirituality as crucial to ascribing meaning to life events, acknowledging multiple potential sources of meaning. The differences and similarities pertaining to the domains of meaning-making of these two subjects are explored. The subjects, who differed regarding biographical variables, were found to share a common sense of purpose within the same socio-political milieu. The study findings confirm that commitment to diverse sources of meaning and generativity are central to meaningfulness. This comparative psychobiographical study contributes to the eugraphic exploration of the meaning-making processes of these exemplary individuals.

Mourning Becomes Hers: Women, Tradition, and Memory Albums

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Blue Wills
Keyword(s):  
Economic Impact ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Web Sites ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Direct Marketing ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
Human Flourishing ◽  
The Common ◽  
Worldwide Network ◽  
Full Humanity

AbstractIn 1987, two women hatched a business plan that became Creative Memories, a direct-marketing company that sells scrapbook materials and techniques to a mostly female clientele through a worldwide network of sales consultants. By the beginning of the new millennium, millions of people had participated in Creative Memories workshops. Many successful imitators also flooded the crafting market with specialized publications, Web sites, tools, and materials, creating an industry worth $2.55 billion by 2004.As significant as the economic impact of scrapbooking is, however, the claims of importance made by its practitioners rate closer examination. Promising to keep photos safe from deterioration, Creative Memories also sold a worldview, reflected across the industry, that such preservation is essential to human flourishing. Such a claim invites considerations both of how the promoters of memory-keeping envision its working and how memory-keepers themselves distinctively shape their practice. This article takes the view that album-making constitutes a kind of innovative female meaning-making (that is, religion) shaped, in part, by American-style Common Sense epistemology while also reflecting what we might call a sidelong feminism, in which a woman expresses agency, claims her voice, and declares the complexity of her full humanity, all by using modes that, on the surface, appear compliant with patriarchy. This article also uses certain notions of religious testimony to gauge the space between the Common Sense project of the album-making industry and the results produced by album-makers themselves.

In-group marker going out: Meaning-making in a community of practice

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 665-684 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Strycharz-Banaś
Keyword(s):  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The Other ◽  
Linguistic Variable ◽  
The Common ◽  
The One

AbstractThis study examines the linguistic aspects of the formation of a community of practice (CofP) and analyses one aspect of the common repertoire that is being actively developed within the community. On the one hand, it looks at the community itself, placing emphasis on the exact practices, beliefs, and resources that can identify a group brought together at times against their will, as a CofP. On the other, this research takes under scrutiny one specific linguistic variable (Japanese negation) to show how involvement in a CofP can bring about rapid and unexpected changes in the meaning and use of a linguistic variant. (Community of practice, indexical meaning, Japanese, negation)*

Common Sense Liposuction Tips

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Nancy Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense
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