In addition to the entry about Etienne Wenger's transformation, I found that AERA has published the slides that were part of a keynote session from Etienne at their place. The title does not reveal it all, "the community structure of large-scale learning networks" so I really recommend everyone to take a peek at it and consider to follow the sessions of Etienne in the next couple of weeks. He will be attending Virtual Communities 2004 later this year (in June).
Some of materials in the presentation follow his earlier works, such as the "social knowledge structures (10)" but after that he goes into the theory as a vision of learning and education in a learning society. A compelling statement (15) he makes is
The 21st century will be the century of identity
Later in the slides, he talks about the individualization of identity - much using the same model as was used to demonstrate the typical life-cycle of social-trust-value creation in communities of practice. One think I would like to work on further is the almost seed question / phrase "identity as innovation". What does that mean and what does that bring?
Etienne is open for conversation about his research work and is still looking for an academic home to work the theory out further. His whopping 3+ MB powerpoint slides come from the his website and are from Etienne
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