what is it about?- My Chosen communities of practice is cheerleading. The university cheerleading team is about having fun, learning new skills, bonding with your fellow cheerleaders and working towards similar goals such as competitions. When i am at cheerleading i feel that i am in a community of practice especially becasue of the fact that " Communities of practices develop around things that matter to people" and evry single cheerleader in the jets is very passionate about what we do and it matters alot to us.
How It Functions- in Wenger is states that typical engagements include engaging in joint activites, which as a team we are involved with both during and out of training, as we warm up as a team, we learn new skills as a team and we often socialize as a team. Every practice is a joint acticity for us. It also talks about creating artifacts, i am not sure whether this is what it means, but within cheerleading our coach choreographs a routine and together we create it by putting up the stunts, doing the dance routine, doing the jumps and moving around the floor in a cheer like fashion. Adapting to changing circumstances, comes into it because we often have to change a routine to improve or change to fit new rules so that we can enter it into the next competition. Also with it being a university squad, every year we hold auditions and we get an influx of new and eager cheerleaders, here we have to adapt our routines to incoorpoorate the new members. Commitment and relationships is shown in the fact that consistently every week we get the whole team showing up for practice and putting 100% effort in, relationships are formed because we spend so much time together i have made some of my best friends at uni from the cheerleading squad, we are not just friends when we cheer we meet with ach other out of this as well.
What capability it has produced- evrybody that comes to our practices is shown how to stunt, dance and jump, even tumbles are thrown in as well. As well as learning routines. They are introduced to new vocabulary, that they may have never ehard of before, for instance the names of stunts and jumps. Also when joining the jets in particular you realise that we have a certain style and a way of approching things, which is very centred around enthusiasm, sometimes being a bit silly, but genuinly being happy to be there and work hard.
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i think this is a really good choice as trusting your team in something like cheerleading is so important. For example, with all the stunts you do you have to there needs to be trust within eachother to achieve the correct balance. I think that communities of practice and the people involved with it form special bonds and like you said friendship and these bonds are exclusive to this group, for example if an outsider came in they would most likely feel like an outsider because of the close friendship and trust you have with eachother. Do you feel alot of your friendshi with the Jets got started from trust? like, did you become friendlier quicker with the ones you were doing stunts with?
Kayleigh,
This is a very American sounding CofP. Does this take place at this University here? What sporting events do you cheerlead at? With your quotations, do try to reference them accurately with quote marks and details in brackets of the author, year published, and page ref. What about details regarding who has the experience? I think the discussion that follows about 'trust' is an interesting one.
All the best
Emma
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