Week 6 Tasks.

6.1) Think of a CofP to which you belong (or have belonged) explain in your seminar forum how your example fits into Wenger's model.

Wenger describes Communities of practice as being "groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly" and stated that there are many different types of communities of practice and that people are involved in a lot more than they may realise. A 'COP' which I belonged to was my school orchestra back when I was thirteen to sixteen. Everybody was in the orchestra for the same reason, they wanted to play their instruments and make music. The interest of everyone was the same, their aims were the same, the contribution people had obviously differed, the conducted and teacher obviously had the leadership role or the 'expert' role as Wenger and Lave describe it. The purpose and the goal of the orchestra was to become a well tuned and coordinated group and to play concerts to as many people as possible.

Communities of practice is a 'group of individuals participating in communal activity, and experiencing, continuously creating their shared identity through engaging in and contributing to the practices of their communities'. The identity that is created by others when being involved in groups such as a school orchestra is being a 'Band geek', 'Uncool' and just generally being a 'nerd'! This obvioulsy depends on what sort of school you go to, mine was far to into the music side of things, so the identity that was put upon you wasn't to negative!