Bridging Two Worlds: Identity Transition in a University Consulting Community of Practice
D. Islam. Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, 1, chapter 14, Information Age Publishing, Charlotte, NC, (2008)
Abstract
This chapter attempts to use the concept of Communities of Practice to describe the process of professional learning in a student-run consulting group. The central thesis put forward is that Communities of Practice within educational settings can act as intermediary zones between university and professional settings, providing students with opportunities to learn social and professional norms that would be difficult to acquire in traditional classroom settings. Drawing on theories of ritual and identity in organizations (e.g. Trice and Beyer, 1993; Pratt, 2000), the chapter examines a completely student-run consulting practice within a business school. The consulting practice draws on university support and professorial expertise, but its managerial processes are centred around a self-selected group of students that is best described as a Community of Practice. It is arued that this student group, through various means of socialization and competency development, constructs a space in-between institutionalized fields that eases the transition between educational and work settings.
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%P 279--292
%T Bridging Two Worlds: Identity Transition in a University Consulting Community of Practice
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%X This chapter attempts to use the concept of Communities of Practice to describe the process of professional learning in a student-run consulting group. The central thesis put forward is that Communities of Practice within educational settings can act as intermediary zones between university and professional settings, providing students with opportunities to learn social and professional norms that would be difficult to acquire in traditional classroom settings. Drawing on theories of ritual and identity in organizations (e.g. Trice and Beyer, 1993; Pratt, 2000), the chapter examines a completely student-run consulting practice within a business school. The consulting practice draws on university support and professorial expertise, but its managerial processes are centred around a self-selected group of students that is best described as a Community of Practice. It is arued that this student group, through various means of socialization and competency development, constructs a space in-between institutionalized fields that eases the transition between educational and work settings.
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