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What is a community?
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What is a community?
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What is a community?
There are several key features which are common to any kind of community.
A community is a group of people who take an interdependent relationship, articulated or justified by the existence of shared objectives and tasks, which involve practices and, of course, artifacts; all these components contribute to the history, culture and identity of a community. This sense of identity is highlighted in the definition of McMillan & Chavis (1986, p. 9):
A sense of belonging, a feeling that members matter to one another and to the group, a belief that shared needs will be met through mutual commitment.
Edit: Communities of practice are being thoroughly studied nowadays, because, they meet the needs of all kinds of professionals in the 21st century. |
25 Sep 2009
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Allisa
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Thank you for your post reminding all of us what �s the meaning of community. 
We need more positive threads here and less meaningless fights.
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25 Sep 2009
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maufon
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Allissa and nikadixon, you are right.
I am quiet new in this community as I have been here for a few months. I have to say that i am happy to be part of it even i have been criticized, and once, some of the members started a controversial argument making fun of me and my mistake, by a simple typo (which happens to me sooo frequiently even in my native language  ).
I must confess that at first i felt a little upset because we all make mistakes, but, then i considered that we all are different and we have to respect each others, i accept my self the way i am and try to do my best, try to accept others as they can be.
I do respect people here that gave me a hand when i asked for help, and some of them helped me a lot even they didn�t know. On the other hand, we should try not to lose the main objective of this site. We are here to support each other because, at the end....we are all the same, no body is more than the other.
Have a wonderful weekend!!!
Hugs from Costa Rica.
�I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it� (paraphrasing Voltaire)
�We are of course a nation of differences. Those differences don�t make us weak. They�re the source of our strength.�
Jimmy Carter |
25 Sep 2009
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) but I couldn �t remember who exactly it was and what exactly he said so I couldn �t even Google it... And here it comes on the message board from you as if I had ordered it on the menu! Thanks a lot!