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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Community of Practice (CoP)"”.
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Understanding and Engaging in Equity Work: A Phenomenological Action Research Study of Community College ESOL Instructors
<p>Community colleges (CCs) are regarded as accessible and affordable pathways to higher education and financial mobility, offering significant potential to promote educational equity (Fink et al., 2023). These institutions enroll the largest number of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) …
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An exploration of contributions to a social work community of practice.
This framing essay provides a critical review of my Portfolio of Public Output, based on published research and academic texts and with reference to examples of some related activism, from the period 2019 to 2024. Specifically, this comprises of four peer reviewed publicly available papers (two …
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Collaborative Experiences of Community Leaders in Eradicating Human Trafficking: A Community of Practice
… explored the collaborative experiences of community leaders in eradicating human trafficking through the framework of a Community of Practice (CoP). As human trafficking remains a pervasive global issue, effective strategies necessitate the engagement of diverse stakeholders, including …
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Forgotten Leaders: An Examination Of Professional Learning Needs Of California's Rural Superintendent-Principals
<p>Professional isolation and lack of relevant professional growth opportunities are common challenges for California’s rural school administrators. More than 27% of California’s 1,026 public school districts employ superintendent–principals as their sole administrator. The problem examined in this …
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Volunteering literacies : an ethnographic approach to exploring the literacy practices of adult volunteers on a vocational further education programme and a social media networking site in an aviation-centred uniformed youth group
The first aim of this research is to better understand how the dominant and vernacular literacy practices of adult volunteers at an aviation-centred uniformed youth group in Hong Kong co-exist through a newly launched continuing education programme – a vocational qualification programme – and …
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Online Support for Intentional, Teacher Community of Practice
The term Community of Practice (CoP) is often used rather loosely to describe many types of instructional settings that support more constructivist or social learning settings. This study differentiates CoP from other learning communities with greater discipline in defining CoP, as characterized by …
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A Self-Organizing Group Within a Hierarchical Organization
… to discover and describe the characteristics of a community of practice (CoP) and the health care system within which it formed. The study explored the relationship between a CoP of primary care physicians and a health care system that was both a hierarchical organization and a complex …
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Examining the Effects of a Content-based Peer Feedback Writing Intervention in Community College Classrooms
… an ongoing concern and contribute to the lack of persistence and degree attainment for community college students (Karp, 2011; Perin, 2013). Since academic writing is a process that develops over time (Perin, 2003), many students require writing support beyond remedial course work for long-term …
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Journeying together towards goodness: participant understanding of practices and narratives in a University of the Nations Discipleship Training School
… By investigating participants’ understandings of social practices and narratives in the University of the Nations (UofN) Discipleship Training School (DTS) using a multiple individual case study approach, this research infers how processes of moral development and identity formation may be …
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Impact of IT on the Role of a Community of Practice Moderator in the Coalescing Stage of Development
… uses case study research to evaluate the impact of Information Technology (IT) on the moderator's role in directing a community of practice (CoP) in its Coalescing stage of development. Ten CoPs were studied.</p> <p>While each of these CoPs is in a different stage of development, the analysis …
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Analysis and Development of an Online Knowledge Management Support System for a Community of Practice
The purpose of this study was to investigate how particular business practices, focusing on those occurring in multi-site non-governmental organization (NGOs), could be enhanced by use of a knowledge management system (KMS). The main objective of this KMS is to enhance business processes and save …
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Inside the black box : creating excellence in stroke care through a community of practice.
This thesis looked inside the black box of stroke care, so called because its contents are not clearly defined. This case study of success illustrated how a new inpatient stroke unit (SU) was created in an inner London teaching hospital, transforming treatment for patients with stroke. Whilst it is …
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Delaware’s Multidisciplinary Teams for the Investigation of Child Abuse: Communities of Practice?
<p>Multidisciplinary teams (MDT) of professionals are mandated to respond to and investigate cases of child abuse in Delaware. Utilizing research and theory about interorganizational collaboration, my exploratory study considered how this mandate operated in practice. Five themes from …
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An exploration into the development of professional teacher identity of student teachers in Wales
Using the Community of Practice (CoP, Lave & Wenger, 1991) as the theoretical model, the study explored the development of professional teacher identity during Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Narrative inquiry was used to obtain personal reflections of ITE experiences from eight student teachers …
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A complex transdisciplinary exploration of South African climate mitigation policy
… in this thesis emerged from fifteen years of practice of (predominantly South African) climate mitigation policy from 2001 - 2016; from a dissatisfaction with the pace and depth of progress, and a realisation that the South African climate mitigation policy community of practice approaches …
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Learning for sustainable management of sedimentation in the Makoye reservoir in Monze east of Southern province,Zambia
… how learning for sustainable management of sedimentation through a community of practice could be used to sustainably manage sedimentation in reservoirs such as Makoye reservoir. Prior studies (Sichingabula, et al., 2014, Chomba and Sichingabula, 2015 and Muchanga, 2017) on sediment …
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Learning for sustainable management of sedimentation in the Makoye reservoir in Monze east of Southern province,Zambia
… how learning for sustainable management of sedimentation through a community of practice could be used to sustainably manage sedimentation in reservoirs such as Makoye reservoir. Prior studies (Sichingabula, et al., 2014, Chomba and Sichingabula, 2015 and Muchanga, 2017) on sediment …
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Our journey to school: A collaboratively constructed, digitally facilitated transition to school
… has been well researched and the importance of educational settings developing a partnership with parents has been identified as a key factor in a child’s effective transition to school. However, this idea is based on the belief that it is the child who is experiencing the transition, while …
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Equitable Classroom Assessment Validity: Process or Product? A Mixed Methods Study at One Ontario College
… credit, in Ontario, Canada through the lenses of reconciliation, equity, diversity, inclusion (EDI), and sustainability. The purpose of this study was for the researcher to come together with students and faculty to explore and describe classroom assessment validity for one final summative …
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“Now I know what I’m capable of, I just didn’t realize it before”: Pre-Service Teacher Readiness to Teach While Conducting Collaborative Action Research in a Community of Practice
… the pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) own sense of readiness to teach. This is particularly important, since each PST will ultimately be responsible for their own classroom as the instructor of record upon graduation. All educational stakeholders in the PST’s future (students, parents, …
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