Message 3

A CoP requires legitimate participation

• Practice: experience the world as meaningful
   
• Meaning: located in the negotiation of meaning
   
• Negotiation of meaning: involves participation and reification
   
• Participation: living in the world in terms of membership
   
• Legitimacy: right to be accepted, to be treated as member
   

[Wenger et al., 2002, p. 51 ff, p. 100 ff]