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Communities of practice are a powerful and focused way to promote development of skills and construct new knowledge among workers. This is demonstrated when theory, policy and funding are brought together in the form of the Australian National Training Authority's (ANTA's) Reframing the Future project. At the same time, there are potential negative aspects of communities of practice and in particular a concern that individuals might disappear into a community of practice and become alienated from their workplaces. There is a need for further research in this area and little work has been completed investigating what happens to the individual in a community of practice.