Abstract
This report presents you the concept of a community of practice. Normally the term community of practice in reduced to CoP and this term was created by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger in 1991. Now to understand this notion, we should understand the fathers of this notion. Jean Lave is a social anthropologist. She studied at Harvard University. Now she is teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. She published three books. Etienne Wenger is an educational theorists and practitioner. He is known for his theory about the situated cognition. He is also famous for his work on the community of practice subject. Etienne Wenger worked with Jean Lave on these two projects. Moreover he thinks that that learning is a social process which cannot be separated from its environment. Now this theorist lives in California but he is not American, he is from Switzerland.
