Author: Etienne Wenger
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: identity, meaning, learning, practice, communities
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1999-12-01
List price: $41.99
ISBN-10: 0521663636
ISBN-13: 9780521663632

Learning is becoming an urgent topic. Nations worry about the learning of their citizens, companies about the learning of their workers, schools about the learning of their students. But it is not always easy to think about how to foster learning in innovative ways. This book presents a framework for doing that, with a social theory of learning that is ground-breaking yet accessible, with profound implications not only for research, but also for all those who have to foster learning as part of their responsibilites at work, at home, at school.Book DescriptionLearning is becoming an urgent topi

Authors:Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: learning, cognitive, computational, perspectives, social, participation, legitimate, peripheral, situated, doing
Number of Pages: 138
Published: 1991-09-27
List price: $31.99
ISBN-10: 0521423740
ISBN-13: 9780521423748

In this important theoretical treatise, Jean Lave, anthropologist, and Etienne Wenger, computer scientist, push forward the notion of situated learning--that learning is fundamentally a social process and not solely in the learner’s head. The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation. Learners participate in communities of practitioners, moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community. Legitimate peripheral participation provides a way to spea

Authors:David A. Garvin, Etienne C. Wenger,
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Keywords: harvard, review, business, series, paperback, teams, succeed
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2004-02-12
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 159139502X
ISBN-13: 9781591395027

Managers at all levels strive to develop effective teams while avoiding the pitfalls so common in team management. This invaluable collection of articles explores teamwork from a variety of angles, including emotional intelligence, creativity, and decision making. Every reader will gain insight on how to create and manage teams that work efficiently, effectively, and collaboratively.

Authors:Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyd
Publisher: Harvard Business Pre
Keywords: practice, communities, cultivating
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2002-03-15
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1578513308
ISBN-13: 9781578513307

From the time our ancestors lived in caves to that day in the late ’80s when Chrysler sanctioned unofficial "tech clubs" to promote the flow of information between teams working on different vehicle platforms, bands of like-minded individuals had been gathering in a wide variety of settings to recount their experiences and share their expertise. Few paid much attention until a number of possible benefits to business were identified, but many are watching more closely now that definitive links have been established. In Cultivating Communities of Practice, consultants Etienne C. Wenger, Ri

Authors:Etienne Minvielle, Etienne Minvielle, Etienne Minvie
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Keywords: quality, healthcare, management, measurement, imperative
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 2000-01
List price: $71.00
ISBN-10: 1860941737
ISBN-13: 9781860941733

Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. Two fundamental pressures are driving change - cost and access - and every system is experimenting with measure designed to address these pressures. In the midst of these experiments, serious concerns about quality are being raised. Are efforts to contain costs leading to practices which have a detrimental effect on quality? What, in fact, is "quality" in the world of healthcare? How should it be measured? How can it be improved? These questions are on the cutting edge of debates about the management of healthcare

Author: Ph. D. Win Wenger
Publisher: Dell
Keywords: intelligence, increase
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1975
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0440339197
ISBN-13: 9780440339199

Boost Your IQ! Expand your sensitivity! Increase your intelligence! You are capable of functioning at a higher intellectual level. This book shows you (1)How to improve your whole brain, physically (2)How to develop your hidden "second" brain (3)New ways to build your vocabulary (4)Fantasy games that lead you to real success and (4)the way to raise brighter children and more... There are sensory awareness exercises and tables of self-evaluation. Your brain power is unlimited...why wait?

Author: P. E Wenger
Publisher: Aristophanes Press
Keywords: analysis, inorganic, qualitative, reagents
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $31.45
ISBN-10: 1406748471
ISBN-13: 9781406748475

REAGENTS FOR QUALITATIVE INORGANIC ANALYSIS SECOND REPORT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON NEW ANALYTICAL REACTIONS AND REAGENTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF CHEMISTRY REAGENTS FOR QUALITATIVE INORGANIC ANALYSIS EDITORS P. E. WENGER, Geneva R. DUCKERT, Geneva JOINT-AUTHORS C. J. VAN NIEUWENBURG, Delft J. GILLIS, Ghent 1948 ELSEVIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, INC. NEW YORK - IIBIIi- -AMSTERDAM LONDON IMP BRUSSELS PREFACE TO THE FRENCH EDITION The authors of the First Report of the International Committee on New Analytical Reactions and Reagents indicated in what spirit the Section for Analytical Che