Landscapes+of+Practices+workshop

=Landscapes of Practices workshop=

This workshop was organized by the PBPL CETL team as part of their exploration with Etienne Wenger about practice based professional learning through the perspective of social learning theory. It was aimed at people from different professions in the landscape of practices related to education, business, nursing and social work. Although the aim was to include more working professionals, the final mix had a high proportion of people from academia.

The objectives of the workshop were to create the conditions for engaging in dialogue at the interface between professional and disciplinary boundaries and to consider the educational implications of this perspective. The objectives included the use of tools and new methods for engaging in the dialogue and for producing a collective output for participants and a wider audience.

The workshop programme specified these six objectives:
 * 1) To experience a microcosm of the landscape of practices in various professions
 * 2) To explore boundaries between practices as learning assets
 * 3) To start a conversation on educational implications of this perspective
 * 4) To use creative methods for engaging in challenging dialogue
 * 5) To use new technologies to support and record conversations
 * 6) To produce a collective output for both participants and a wider audience

I was invited to work with the coordinating team to integrate social reporting tools and methods into the design and implementation of the workshop and my involvement started at an early stage of the design of the workshop programme.

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