At Rose Bruford College we encourage the notion that we are all participants in a Critical Learning Community – that means all students and lecturers are engaged in a mutually productive co-learning partnership. We could also call ourselves a Community of Practice (CoP). Communities of Practice, a concept developed by Wenger (see Reading Room), are groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.

For this reason, we encourage you to form your own small critical learning group either face-to-face or online. By discussing your pedagogic practice with or posing questions to group participants to grapple with collaboratively, you are likely to both enjoy and deepen your own learning from these resources. Your group might develop into a fully functioning Community of Practice. It doesn’t matter whether the group is large or small with just a handful of enthusiasts, what is important is that you have others with whom you may share your pedagogic practice and personal learning journey. If joining or forming a group proves difficult for you, find at least one other person with whom you can regularly discuss your pedagogic practice in the light of the theories you encounter here.