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Effective knowledge sharing is crucial to the long-term capacity-building of learners, in order to ensure the sustainability of individuals, teams and communities. This chapter explores three sites of knowledge sharing practices: circuses in the Netherlands; an Australian senior secondary art classroom; and an Australian university education research team. Despite this diversity of contexts, each site exhibited both similarities and differences in knowledge sharing practices, and generated successful capacity-building amongst the participants. Each group’s selection of knowledge sharing practices was based on the concept of fitness of purpose’, as a knowledge sharing practice that is unfit for one context may be the best fit in another. This leads to a discussion of the concept of ‘knowledge reach’ across space, time and context.
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© 2014 Patrick Alan Danaher, Andy Davies, Linda De George-Walker, Janice K. Jones, Karl J. Matthews, Warren Midgley, Catherine H. Arden, Margaret Baguley
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Danaher, P.A. et al. (2014). Knowledge Sharing Practices and Capacity-Building. In: Contemporary Capacity-Building in Educational Contexts. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137374578_7
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