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Irving, Paul W.; Sayre, Eleanor C. – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
We use the theory of communities of practice and the concept of accountable disciplinary knowledge to describe how a learning community develops in the context of an upper-division physics laboratory course. The change in accountable disciplinary knowledge motivates students' enculturation into a community of practice. The enculturation process is…
Descriptors: Physics, Laboratory Experiments, Communities of Practice, Time Factors (Learning)