The document discusses the importance of trust in building communities of practice for peer learning. It defines key concepts like peeragogy, trust, and communities of practice. It also outlines six key components of effective communities of practice: distributed leadership, creative deviance, honoring diversity, manipulating space, action learning, and sharing reflective practice. Building trust is essential for peer learning and knowledge sharing within communities of practice.

1. The Peeragogy of Trust
Understanding the Importance of Trust
in
Building Communities of Practice
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2. Peeragogy Defined
Peeragogy is a collection of the best
practices of effective peer learning. It is also
a theory of peer-to-peer learning and
teaching that addresses the challenge of
producing a useful and supportive context
for self-directed learning.

3. Trust Defined
A dictionary definition of trust would tell you
that trust is:
A firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or
character of a person or thing.
How do we learn to learn how to trust others
we can learn from: a triad of learning?

4. Community of Practice Defined
Communities of practice are formed by people who
engage in a process of collective learning in a
shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe
learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new
forms of expression, a group of engineers working
on similar problems.
In a nutshell:
Communities of practice are groups of people who
share a concern or a passion for something they
do and learn how to do it better as they interact
regularly.

5. The Six Key Components
1. Distributed Leadership
2. Creative Deviance
3. Honouring Diversity
4. Manipulating Space
5. Action Learning
6. Sharing Reflective Practice

6. Distributed Leadership
Who leads depends upon:-
• Physical location
• Interpersonal skills
• ICT literacy
• Area of expertise
• Experience

7. Creative Deviance
• Being creative is having or showing
imagination
• Deviance is the ability to depart from
convention
• Creative deviance is concerned with
showing the imagination to do things
differently
• Innovation breaks out knowledge sharing
boundaries

8. Honouring Diversity
Involves respecting:-
• Being ‘different’
• Other cultures
• Different opinions
• Differing stages of personal development
• Multi-literacy

9. Manipulating Space
• Physical space
• Virtual space
• Personal space
• User space
• ‘Liminal’ space
• Rites of passage

10. Action Learning
Participation is a process of learning and
knowing which includes four
interconnected and mutually defining
components:-
• Meaning: Learning as experience
• Practice: Learning as doing
• Community: Learning as belonging
• Identity: Learning as becoming

11. Sharing Reflective Practice
• Practice as ‘artful doing’
• ‘Thinking on your feet’
• Sharing good practice
• After action review
• Double loop learning