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Cara Margherio; Anna L. Swan; Selen Güler – Innovative Higher Education, 2025
While the role of teams in leading transformations within academia is increasingly recognized, few studies have analyzed how teams form. Understanding the processes of interdisciplinary team formation within higher education will allow leaders to intentionally bring together individuals and form teams with higher likelihoods of success. In this…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Longitudinal Studies, Communities of Practice, Situated Learning
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Perry, J. Adam – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2022
Grounded in an analysis of interviews with migrant farm workers in Canada, this article explores how learning in the everyday contexts of temporary transnational labor migration is implicated in both migrant identity formation and the social reproduction of an established and growing labor migration regime. The article focuses on thinking through…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Migrant Workers, Workplace Learning, Seasonal Laborers
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Segarra Arnau, Tomàs; Traver Martí, Joan A.; Lozano Estivalis, María – Ethnography and Education, 2023
This paper presents partial results of a broader investigation and focuses on describing a process of reification that took place at the heart of an immigrant community in Sant Mateu (Castelló, Spain), and that crystallised through the construction and management of a mosque. The theoretical framework draws on social learning theories, with a…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Immigrants, Communities of Practice, Islam
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Brady Nash – Journal of Literacy Research, 2024
Scholars have long recognized that reading in digital spaces requires unique skills, strategies, and competencies in comparison to those needed for reading printed text. In recent years, the ubiquity of social media and algorithmically targeted content has radically changed the nature of online reading and meaning making. Technological changes…
Descriptors: Digital Literacy, Critical Literacy, Media Literacy, Reading Instruction
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Sune Dueholm Müller – Information Systems Education Journal, 2024
Educational institutions face challenges of bridging gaps between teaching, research, and practice to ensure that students' knowledge and competencies are current and relevant to practitioner communities. Research apprenticeship is a student research model that supports students in becoming knowledgeable and competent members of the IS research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Systems, Undergraduate Students, Student Research
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Haneberg, Dag Håkon; Aadland, Torgeir – Industry and Higher Education, 2020
This article explores how students learn from venture creation in higher education by using a novel empirical approach: the Zaltman metaphor elicitation technique (ZMET). This inductive research approach provides extraordinarily rich data that enable a thorough and holistic understanding of students' learning processes. The participant selection…
Descriptors: Entrepreneurship, Higher Education, College Students, Communities of Practice
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Bernadette F. van Heel; Riyan J. G. van den Born; Noelle Aarts – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Dutch nature organisations developed the Green Traineeship, combining out-of-the-classroom learning with voluntary work in nature for young adults, with the aim of supporting them to towards future action for nature. To better understand how young adults' engagement with nature can be strengthened and facilitated, we studied perceived knowledge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Conservation (Environment), Volunteers
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Ceran, Onur; Bahadir, Harun – Journal of Learning and Teaching in Digital Age, 2019
Wenger (2011) has argued that domain, community and practice should be gathered in order to create communities of practice (CoP). It is believed that CoP would end as soon as the interest in learning together diminishes. Within that context, the role played by the community leader is of importance. In structural communities, which Wenger defines…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Leadership Role, Computer Mediated Communication, Situated Learning
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Qi Sun; Xi Lin; Xiaoqiao Zhang; Rachel Rui – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2024
This qualitative case study examines the learning experiences of self-organized Chinese and Chinese American adults from the X Care Group amid the political repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings revealed how care group members created meaning in their daily life experiences, reformed their identity, and increased their Chinese and…
Descriptors: Situated Learning, Community Involvement, Asian Americans, Asians
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Kim, Mijung; McFeetors, P. Janelle; Jin, Qingna; Rose, Kerry; Carey, Jason; Miller-Young, Janice; Jamieson, Marnie; Adeeb, Samer – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2023
Increasing numbers of studies in STEM fields indicate that there are higher gains in student outcomes in classroom environments implementing evidence-based teaching approaches focused on learners and their learning when compared to traditional lecture-based classrooms. However, despite the compelling results, studies show that lecture is still the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, College Faculty, Student Centered Learning
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Kilpatrick, Sue; Emery, Sherridan; Farmer, Jane; DeCotta, Tracy – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Many social enterprises aim to transition disadvantaged people into mainstream employment; they are engaged in commercial activity underpinned by a social mission. They provide training in life and work skills to develop capability, defined as ability to achieve. They are spaces apparently available not only to develop socially and economically…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Entrepreneurship, Workplace Learning, Well Being
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S. Michael Putman; Anne H. Cash; Drew Polly – Teacher Education Quarterly, 2022
Teacher self-efficacy is a construct that exerts a powerful influence on the behaviors of teachers. Yet, few studies have been conducted examining the impact of contextual structures within educator preparation programs on the development of general and domain-specific teaching efficacy. This study investigated the impact of a yearlong internship…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Internship Programs, Self Efficacy, Communities of Practice
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Rebecca Buchanan; Liliana Herakova; Leah Hakkola; Mollie Ruben – Teaching in Higher Education, 2024
Research on communities of practice (CoP) focused on teaching have shown that they are valuable venues for collaborative sensemaking for practitioners. This article reports on a study examining how members of an equity focused CoP at a predominantly white institution in the United States co-constructed meaning around issues of equity through…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Equal Education, Social Justice, Predominantly White Institutions
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Johri, Aditya – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Increasing digitisation of engineering and social practices has altered the relationship between formal schooling and development of expertise for professional engineering work. What does the development of expertise look like when knowledge is generated and shared at an accelerated pace due to shifts in technology? In this paper, I present case…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Skill Development, Expertise, Professional Personnel
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Haresnape, Janet M.; Aiken, Fiona J.; Wynn, Nirvana C. – Open Learning, 2022
This study explored the extent to which distance learning tutors found sharing practice through participating in a tutor-led online programme of online events helped them to develop as practitioners and hence support students more effectively. The regular online sessions, delivered by tutors for tutors, was a staff development initiative…
Descriptors: Open Universities, College Faculty, Distance Education, Sharing Behavior
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