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communities of practice

communities of practice is the plural of community of practice.

Meaning of community of practice

Noun

community of practice (plural communities of practice)

  1. A group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.
    • In the classroom, disciplinary literacy entails seeing each subject area as a community of practice in which the teacher facilitates entry for students by helping them understand how to use language to access its conceptual knowledge and discourse practices.2018, Clarence Green, James Lambert, “Position vectors, homologous chromosomes and gamma rays: Promoting disciplinary literacy through Secondary Phrase Lists”, in English for Specific Purposes, →DOI...

Questions about communities of practice

What is communities of practice the plural of?
Communities of practice is the plural of community of practice.

Words near communities of practice in the dictionary

  1. communitarians
  2. communitas
  3. communitates
  4. communitie
  5. communities
  6. communities of practice
  7. communitive
  8. communitization
  9. communitizations
  10. communitize
  11. communitized

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