The Peeragogy of TrustThe Peeragogy of Trust

Understanding the Importance of Trust Understanding the Importance of Trust in in

Building Communities of PracticeBuilding Communities of Practice

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Peeragogy DefinedPeeragogy Defined

Peeragogy is a collection of the best practices of effective peer learning. It is also a theory of peer-to-peer learning and teaching that addresses the challenge of producing a useful and supportive context for self-directed learning.

Trust DefinedTrust Defined

A dictionary definition of trust would tell you that trust is:

A firm reliance on the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing.

How do we learn to learn how to trust others we can learn from: a triad of learning?

Community of Practice DefinedCommunity of Practice DefinedCommunities of practice are formed by people who engage in a process of collective learning in a shared domain of human endeavor: a tribe learning to survive, a band of artists seeking new forms of expression, a group of engineers working on similar problems.

In a nutshell:

Communities of practice 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.

The Six Key ComponentsThe Six Key Components

1. Distributed Leadership

2. Creative Deviance

3. Honouring Diversity

4. Manipulating Space

5. Action Learning

6. Sharing Reflective Practice

Distributed LeadershipDistributed Leadership

Who leads depends upon:-

• Physical location

• Interpersonal skills

• ICT literacy

• Area of expertise

• Experience

Creative DevianceCreative Deviance

• Being creative is having or showing imagination

• Deviance is the ability to depart from convention

• Creative deviance is concerned with showing the imagination to do things differently

• Innovation breaks out knowledge sharing boundaries

Honouring DiversityHonouring Diversity

Involves respecting:-

• Being ‘different’

• Other cultures

• Different opinions

• Differing stages of personal development

• Multi-literacy

Manipulating SpaceManipulating Space

• Physical space

• Virtual space

• Personal space

• User space

• ‘Liminal’ space

• Rites of passage

Action LearningAction Learning

Participation is a process of learning and knowing which includes four interconnected and mutually defining components:-

• Meaning: Learning as experience

• Practice: Learning as doing

• Community: Learning as belonging

• Identity: Learning as becoming

Sharing Reflective PracticeSharing Reflective Practice

• Practice as ‘artful doing’

• ‘Thinking on your feet’

• Sharing good practice

• After action review

• Double loop learning