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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"knowledge communities"”.
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Effective Search in Online Knowledge Communities: A Genetic Algorithm Approach
Online Knowledge Communities, also known as online forum, are popular web-based tools that allow members to seek and share knowledge. Documents to answer varieties of questions are associated with the process of knowledge exchange. The social network of members in an Online Knowledge Community is …
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Inclusion of Knowledge Communities in Planning Processes : An Analysis of Green Infrastructure Planning in Maryland, USA.
… created in practice and how the integration of knowledge held by the various knowledge communities, commonly involved in environmental planning practices, are included in the process. This dissertation fills this gap with an analysis of how knowledge communities are involved throughout the green …
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Transforming Learning in Science Classrooms: A Blended Knowledge Community Approach
… how science curricula designed based on the Knowledge Community and Inquiry (KCI) model (Slotta, 2007) would foster the development of knowledge communities in secondary school science classrooms. KCI situates scaffolded inquiry activities within a collective context. In two design …
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Networks and the Development of the Irish Biotechnology Sector
… combinations of engineering and scientific knowledge from an array of disciplines used to produce products and processes from living organisms, has been identified as a key sector for future economic developments among industrialised and industrialising nations as it blurs traditional …
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Mapping the knowledge base of information policy: clusters of documents, people and ideas
… relevant to studies of scholarly disciplines and knowledge communities. It discusses the interdisciplinary problem-oriented nature of information policy and considers some of the modes of enquiry which characterise investigations this area. Part Two consists of a series of experiments carried out …
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Forest insects, personhood and the environment: Harurwa (edible stinkbugs) and conservation in south-eastern Zimbabwe
… oppositions such as science versus indigenous knowledge and nature versus culture and as such forms part of a major epistemological shift in Anthropology towards rethinking the binaries created by enlightenment modern thought which have for so long served to confine anthropological attention to …
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Ruffled Feathers: Shared narratives in the sage-grouse management conflict in Sublette County, Wyoming
… Q method suggested three distinct viewpoints or knowledge communities existed within the sample: ultra locals, classic biologists and harmonizers. Ultra locals largely consisted of ranchers (75%) and others dependent on the land for their livelihood and showed a strong preference for local county …
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Ruffled Feathers: Shared narratives in the sage-grouse management conflict in Sublette County, Wyoming
… Q method suggested three distinct viewpoints or knowledge communities existed within the sample: ultra locals, classic biologists and harmonizers. Ultra locals largely consisted of ranchers (75%) and others dependent on the land for their livelihood and showed a strong preference for local county …
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From Baby Formula To Solid Food: How The Influence Of Media Has Nourished Children's Literature
… franchises. Marketing companies and fan communities attempt to create immediacy and reality for characters that saturates the reader and is evidenced by toys, games, and interactive websites. This co-mingling of media and literature creates global knowledge communities, including complex …
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Online Knowledge Community Mining and Modeling for Effective Knowledge Management
… now do in virtual space. In particular, online communities have become popular and efficient media for people all over the world to seek and share knowledge in domains that interest them. Such communities are called online knowledge communities (OKCs). Large-scale OKCs may comprise thousands of …
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Narrative means towards literacy understandings: exploring transformations within literacies and migrating identities. An analysis of narrative reflections towards the development of critical reflective thinking by mature students in a classroom of wider access
… understandings of what constitutes learning, knowledge and meaning making, and their own roles in these processes, including the agency they take on in the process. In examining how agency is adopted, I look at the development of reflective functioning as reported by these students. I consider …
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Building communities and sharing knowledge: a study into teachers working together across national boundaries
… dissertation explores the types of professional communities that are built when teachers work in initiatives that, in various forms, link them to teachers from other countries. In doing so it explores the types of knowledge that may be exchanged by the building of these communities and the value …
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Contrasting epistemologies in the use of natural dyes, Central Highlands of Chiapas
… examines how the interaction of these diverse communities of practice and inherent epistemologies affects artisanal dyeing techniques among the populations of the Central Highlands of Chiapas. Ethnoarchaeological fieldwork was carried out in San Cristóbal de Las Casas and its surrounding areas …