by Team BE | Feb 28, 2017 | All entries, Cultivating CoPs, News, Theory
In April 2016, we visited the Academic Enhancement Center at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Suzhou, China. We did a keynote at their Learning and Teaching Colloquium and participated in a series of activities. The team created a great video report of our...
by Team BE | Dec 30, 2014 | All entries, Publications, Theory
Post by Etienne: In my visiting professor position at Manchester University and during the course of social theories of learning I co-teach there, I have often been challenged to articulate how my own theorizing relates to other theories, such as Activity,...
by Team BE | Dec 30, 2014 | All entries, Publications, Systems convening, Theory
Our new book on “Learning in Landscapes of Practice” was published by Routledge in July. For us, the book is a significant milestone both theoretically and practically. Theoretically it represents a new step in the evolution of the theory: We focus on landscapes of...
by Team BE | Jan 30, 2012 | All entries, Publications, Theory
Communities of practice and social learning systems: the career of a concept This article was written by Etienne in 2009 for a textbook co-published by the Open University and Springer. It does two things. It relates the conceptual framework of...
by Team BE | Jan 1, 2012 | All entries, Resources, Social learning capability, Theory
We may know what we need to know to deal with many of the world’s complex problems; what we don’t have as a system is the learning capability to deal with them. After a talk on the subject of social learning capability at the WHO, a doctor shared the following...
by Team BE | Jan 1, 2012 | All entries, Definitions, FAQ's, Theory
We see it as our mission to develop a theory and practice of social learning – for individuals, communities, organizations, and society more generally. So this concept is fundamental for us. Etienne’s work on social learning theory places learning at the...
