Learning Architectures in Higher Education: Beyond Communities of Practice

Learning Architectures in Higher Education restores criticality and rigour to the study of communities of
practice as a means of understanding learning, acknowledging that this is one
of the most influential and widely used theories of learning to emerge during
the last 30 years but one that has been misapplied and diluted. Jonathan
Tummons explores communities of practice theory, looking at how its focus on
learning as apprenticeship can be understood, providing the reader with a
conceptual framework for making sense of learning as a social practice as
distinct from an individual, psychological process. Tummons looks at how communities
of practice theory needs to be reconfigured to take account of the insights
provided by other theoretical models and then applies his critically and
theoretically reworked perspective to two distinct higher education contexts,
providing critical and powerful tools for examining learning and teaching
practices.