Fallability

Putting a CoP model into practice with children , in a school may not be quite as easy as a CoP in business. This study highlights some of the inherent fallabilities of CoPs particularly when there is inadequate training and support.
In this school, there were problems of -
'preserve the status quo
naturally resistant to change
the social influence of the communities prevented individual reflection.
Members’ gatekeeping prevents some cases and issues from
coming under discussion and allows others to pass through.
The communities’ lack of adherence to the work of each of the stages yielded the
practice of a school-based problem-solving model that strongly resembled the previous,
compliance-oriented student support model.
This conflict between framing the model as ecologically-based while permitting
deficit attributions highlights a conceptual weakness within the model that can easily and
unintentionally be distorted by communities.'
Interesting food for thought

Benn, A. L. (2004). COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE: STUDY OF ONE SCHOOL’S FIRST YEAR OF IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW PROBLEM-SOLVING MODEL. retrieved 14/12/2007 OAIster database
https://drum.umd.edu/dspace/bitstream/1903/2313/1/umi-umd-1969.pdf