Advance HE Teaching & Learning Conference 2018: Learning in a community of practice: Where is the tutor?

Learning in HE is often considered as acquisition of knowledge. We consider universities as landscapes of communities of practice and explore participatory learning and the resulting professional identity development. In so doing we reconfigure the role of academic teachers from providers of knowledge to full participants enculturing students into a community of practice. Understanding community learning has an added incentive. The UK National Student Survey makes reference to a learning community. This paper has relevance for delegates interested in discussing learning and community across HE.