Review Green Open Access 2008

Constructing communities for learning in nursing

International Journal of Nursing Education Scholarship
Journal · Vol. 5 · Issue 1 · Art. 24
Abstract

Working in communities is increasingly a feature of UK (United Kingdom) higher education. Within the last decade communities of practice (CoPs) have migrated from organisational development departments and evolved to become tools for practice based learning in educational settings. More recently, in nursing, the literature reports that CoPs have the potential to blend the skills of both academics and clinicians to transform and create new knowledge that is both scholarly and applicable to practice. Copyright "2008 The Berkeley Electronic Press. All rights reserved.

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communities of practice practice based learning Transforming knowledge

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learning human Humans Article education United Kingdom organization and management community care community health nursing Great Britain Community Health Services
Author Affiliations
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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