Resumen

HERNANDEZ MORALES, Adriana  y  FLORES MACIAS, Rosa del Carmen. Characterization of a community of practice using oriented mathematics in engineering teaching. Innov. educ. (Méx. DF) [online]. 2013, vol.13, n.62, pp.101-119. ISSN 1665-2673.

Communities of practice are fundamentally privileged opportunities of learning established in public organizations as in educational institutions. The main objective of these communities is to convert personal knowledge on collective values that result in practices either renovated or different (Wenger, 1998). Groups of teachers who have a history of working together may get a better understanding of them and develop if they are identified as a community of practice. The aim of this paper is to show the process followed to characterize as a community of practice a group of researchers and teachers who use the perspective of Mathematics in Sciences Context. This characterization takes place in three stages: conceptual referents identification, negotiation of meaning, and establishment of shared meanings. The dialogue with the leader of the community about their experiences and substantiation of their approach, leads to the recognition of the community of practice MCC-IPN-ESIME. Based on this fact, are made different considerations of the implications for the group.

Palabras llave : Community of practice; teaching mathematics; teachers; engineering.