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cord-018038-gqdylj6n	Snyder, William M.	Our World as a Learning System: A Communities-of-Practice Approach	2010		.txt	text/plain	7654	363	45	Civic development is essentially a social process of action learning, in which practitioners from diverse sectors, disciplines, and organisations work together to share ideas and best practices, create new approaches, and build new capabilities. Rather, sponsors and community leaders must be ready to engage in an evolutionary design process whereby the organisation fosters the development of communities among practitioners, creates structures that provide support and sponsorship for these communities, and finds ways to involve them in the conduct of the business. One way to assess the level of civic stewardship in any city or region is to map the prevalence, inclusiveness, and effectiveness of civic communities of practice (also known as coalitions, associations, partnerships, and alliances, among other terms) who take responsibility for clusters of issues related to particular civic domains, such as education, economic development, health, housing, public safety, infrastructure, culture, recreation, and the environment. A discipline that promotes the development of strategic social learning systems to steward civic practices at local, national, and global levels.	./cache/cord-018038-gqdylj6n.txt	./txt/cord-018038-gqdylj6n.txt