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community of practice

community of practice noun: a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.

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...

Forms of community of practice

pluralcommunities of practice

Questions about community of practice

What does community of practice mean?
Community of practice means a group of people who share a craft and/or a profession.
What part of speech is community of practice?
Community of practice is a noun.
What is the plural of community of practice?
The plural of community of practice is communities of practice.

Words near community of practice in the dictionary

  1. community notes
  2. community noting
  3. community nurse
  4. community nurses
  5. Community of Madrid
  6. community of practice
  7. community organizer
  8. community organizers
  9. community owned
  10. community ownership
  11. community payback

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