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P1: 521 83643 3September4,200513:1110Semiotic Social Spaces and Affinity SpacesFromThe Age of Mythologyto Today s SchoolsJames Paul Geeintroduction: from groups to spacesIn this paper, I consider an alternative to the notion of a communityof practice (Lave and Wenger1991;Wenger1998). This alternativefocuses on the idea of aspacein which people interact, rather thanonmembershipin a community. I want to consider this alternativebecause I believe that the notion of what I will later call an affinityspace is a particularly important contemporary social configurationwith implications for the future of schools and notion of a community of practice has been a fruitful , it has given rise to several problems, some of which are: The idea of community can carry connotations of belonging-ness and close-knit personal ties among people which do notnecessarily always fit classrooms, workplaces or other sites wherethe notion of a community of practice has been used.
P1: JZZ 0521836433c10.xml CB872/Barton 0 521 83643 3 September 4, 2005 13:11 216 Beyond Communities of Practice specialists and policy-makers who help shape the classroom’s prac-
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