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German translation: Community of Practice


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English term or phrase:community of practice
German translation:Community of Practice
Entered by: Alexandra Wahl
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08:55 Apr 30, 2004
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Social Sciences - Government / Politics
English term or phrase: community of practice
text is about effect of Informations Society Technologies on social capital, term appears in the phrase "in particular the paper examines civic engagement and knowledge transfer within and across communities of practice" my suggested translation/explanation to follow the English term in parenthesis (unless anyone knows a ready-made equivalent in German) is: "Fachgemeinschaft zur gegenseitigen Wissensförderung", does that sound ok?
Philip Askew
Community of Practise
Explanation:
I would use the English term since 'Community of Practise' is also used in German contexts. But if you HAVE to translate the term 'Fachgemeinschaft zur gegenseitigen Wissensförderung' seems quite suitable.
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Alexandra Wahl
United States
Local time: 18:20
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Hallo, vielen Dank für die Hilfe. Bin zum ersten Mal in Kudoz, und weiß nicht so genau, wie das mit den Punkten funktioniert ...
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4Community of Practise
Alexandra Wahl
4ExpertennetzwerkHorst2
3Wissensgemeinschaft
Michael Pauls


  

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Community of Practise


Explanation:
I would use the English term since 'Community of Practise' is also used in German contexts. But if you HAVE to translate the term 'Fachgemeinschaft zur gegenseitigen Wissensförderung' seems quite suitable.

Alexandra Wahl
United States
Local time: 18:20
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman
PRO pts in category: 4
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Hallo, vielen Dank für die Hilfe. Bin zum ersten Mal in Kudoz, und weiß nicht so genau, wie das mit den Punkten funktioniert ...

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neutral  GermanEngl: It depends in the context .....(Je nach Zusammenhang des Textes .................. es heisst auch) it means...... Gemeinschafts Praxis !
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Wissensgemeinschaft


Explanation:
Da die Definition des Begriffs schon im Englischen sehr viele Formen und Ziele des Zusammenwirkens solcher Gruppen umfasst, ist die Abbildung durch einen prägnanten deutschen Begriff natürlich schwer.
Häufig wird "Wissensgemeinschaft" verwendet.

Siehe: http://www.4managers.de/01-Themen/..\10-Inhalte\asp\communit...

Und weitere Fundstellen bei Google:
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Wissen...

Fachgemeinschaft oder Fachgruppe (ohne den Zusatz "zur gegenseitigen ...") kann in bestimmten Zusammenhängen sicher auch verwendet werden.


Verschiedene engl. Definitionen sind hier zusammengefasst:
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/definitions....



Michael Pauls
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Local time: 03:20
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Expertennetzwerk


Explanation:
wenn man es unbedingt übersetzen muß.
Siehe auch dazu mp´s link

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