Presentation of thesis to CPSquare

1. The Curriculum within a Community of Practice - A Case Study – MPhill in Education Sciences – Educational Technologies Dissertation Supervised by Dr. Maria Helena Peralta 2007

4. Problem Are Communities of Practice – and the WiA in particular - instances that aim to facilitate the construction of a constructivist curriculum and provide teacher training opportunities?

8. The Curriculum (in CoPs) The “curriculum is the Community of Practice itself” Wenger (1998, pp.100) Learning Curriculum (Lave e Wenger, 1991) Process (Stenhouse, 1975) Practice (Grundy, 1987) Context (Figueiredo, 1999 Declarative Knowledge Procedural Knowledge Attitudinal knowledge (Coll e Valls, 1998; Coll, 1998; Rodrigues e Peralta, 2006; )

9. Communities of Practice (online) Collective Learning Practices Etienne Wenger (1998) Acquisition/ development of knowledge and practices Interaction and socialization

10. (online) CoPs Etienne Wenger (1998) “ A learning curriculum is a field of learning resources in everyday resources in everyday practice viewed from the perspective of learners” (Lave and Wenger, 1991, p. 97). The CoP is the curriculum itself Shared Repertoire Mutual Engagement Joint Enterprise Routines, resources; sensibilities; artefacts; vocabulary; styles ; stories; tools; events ; etc Engagement Interaction Interrelationships Socialization Humanware (Re)Negotiation of meaning Interpretations Feedback Collaboration

12. Triangulation of the collected data Conclusions PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION DOCUMENT ANALYSIS e-QUESTIONNAIRE Observation of the reality from an insider perspective Analysis of the documented reality Reflect ion about the Reality in analysis Emergency of the analysis categories Analysis Model – Webheads in Action Problem Case Study A Qualitative Approach

15. Some Final Thoughts

16. May the discussion begin! @