Table 1 Stages of CoP Development (adapted from Wenger et al. 2002)
From: A community of practice approach to enhancing academic integrity policy translation: a case study
Stages | Description | Key activities |
|---|---|---|
Stage 1: Potential | People face similar situations with the benefit of a shared practice | Finding each other and discovering commonalities |
Stage 2: Coalescing | Members come together and discover their potential | Exploring connectedness, defining joint enterprise, negotiating community |
Stage 3: Active | Members engage in developing a practice | Engaging in joint activities, creating artifacts, adapting to changed circumstances, renewing interest, commitment and relationships |
Stage 4: Dispersed | Members no longer engage very intensely but the community is still alive as a force and a centre of knowledge | Staying in touch, holding reunions, calling for advice |
Stage 5: Dormant | The community is no longer central but people still remember it as a significant part of their identities [and practice] | Telling stories, preserving artifacts, collecting memorabilia |