Community of Practice as a teaching approach in a postgraduate environment. An insider ethnography of a higher education institution in South Africa.

This auto-ethnographic description of the experiences in the development of the teaching and learning approach, at the postgraduate level, introduces the impact of the community of practice in the development of the learning processes in South Africa, with an international view. The principles of co...

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Published in:Academicus no. 25; pp. 143 - 174
Main Author: Tandlich, Roman
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Published: Academicus 2022
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        Communities of practice
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