Keepers+of+the+framework

**Keepers of the Framework**
==== Anchoring or gateway practices (e.g.academic writing) give people the identity and capability to sit sufficiently apart from social practices, so that they can move between practices, make interventions within them and find accommodations on the boundaries between practices. Central to these gateway practices, or becoming a practitioner within them, is taking the authority to make judgements and evaluations about what is happening in sphere of the social world. So academic writing is a gateway practice for moving around the landscape of professional practices. Dressing cool is a gateway practice for moving around the landscape of teenage street practices. In both cases, the landscape of practice has a power structure, which enables some people to move around it and prevents others from doing so. ====