Communities Of Practice

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In sport system, if there is a question if communities of practice can be formed in sports or not, after the research, the answer would be yes since there are members within each community and they are interacting to each other which then will automatically form some source of communities of practice, furthermore one of the communities of practice can be a larger and some can be smallers, it depends on the members who are in more than one communities of practice and they also play a big enough role in both of them to make an affect to others that involved. Wegner also mentioned that “there are well established differences between the roles of each group in sport (coaches, officials, parents, administrators). Each of these groups is more inclined to form their own CoP rather than forming one big CoP. …show more content…
(Culver, 2008)” These sentences explained that even though within only one team, there would always be more than one communities of practice formed, in this case they are an athlete communities of practice and coach communties of

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