Knowledge Building Communities

Knowledge Building Communities

A Knowledge Building Community (KBC) is a community in which the primary goal is knowledge creation rather than the construction of specific products or the completion of tasks. This notion is fundamental in Knowledge building theory. If knowledge is not realized for a community than we do not have knowledge building. Examples of KBCs are

  • Classrooms
  • Academic research teams
  • Modern management companies
  • Modern business R&D groups
  • Wikipedia (Wikimedia Foundation together with its millions of Wikipedians)

Read more about Knowledge Building Communities:  Knowledge Building Communities in Classrooms

Famous quotes containing the words knowledge, building and/or communities:

    “Thinking is more interesting than knowledge but not than looking.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “And when discipline is concerned, the parent who has to make it to the end of an eighteen-hour day—who works at a job and then takes on a second shift with the kids every night—is much more likely to adopt the survivor’s motto: “If it works, I’ll use it.” From this perspective, dads who are even slightly less involved and emphasize firm limits or character- building might as well be talking a foreign language. They just don’t get it.”
    —Ron Taffel (20th century)

    “The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
    —Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)