Scattered notes on "Identity in practice" + in-class notes

I'm going to switch things up a bit since I'm late to the party and there are already several excellent summaries of Wenger that should get us started. I'll include some notes here for my own selfish paper-writing purposes, and then try to give back to the blog by adding notes from our in-class discussion.

Notes
- Identity and practice as parallel
- Identity as a social process of lived experiences of participation in specific communities
- Identities form trajectories in and across communities as we participate (154)
- The "temporal notion of trajectory characterizes identity as:" (158)
- Negotiation of identity is the process of reconciling one's multimembership
- Identity is not local to a community in the same way that practice is not local to a community
- Summary of identity characteristics on 163. Identity is lived, negotiated, social, a learning process, a nexus, and a local-global interplay.

Notes from in-class discussion
Trajectories over time, within, and across multiple communities
Paradigmatic trajectory: the "paths well worn" in the community. A set of possibilities that a newcomer can pursue; "they soon find out what counts" (156)

Is the paradigmatic trajectory something that is regarded to be the community ideal? Not necessarily -- the essence is that the trajectories occur over time (in contrast to the group prototype, which tends to polarize)

Cool Running connections
Check out the Am I a runner? topic on the Cool Running newbie wiki: http://coolrunningnewbie.pbwiki.com/AmIARunner