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Showing 1 to 20 of 94 for “"wenger"”.
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How generalists function as a community of practice in a community college one-stop student service center
… the concept of a community of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998; Wenger, McDermott, & Snyder, 2002) to examine how community college generalists engage in social learning to promote college knowledge that helps community college students succeed. To obtain a deep and nuanced …
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The Infinity Mirror: Learning to Lead Through Action-Oriented Inquiry
… of perspective and engagement articulated by Wenger-Trayner and Wenger- Trayner (2016) in their Learning in Landscapes of Practice conceptual framework, the study is organized around the primary critical question: How has my perspective on what it means to be a teacher leader been transformed …
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Algebraic methods in graph theory
… the whole spectrum of a family of graphs called Wenger graphs Wm (q ). We also study the a conjecture of Brouwer, concerning the second connectivity of strongly regular graphs. Finally, we compute the extendability of matchings for many strongly regular graphs and many distance-regular graphs.
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The silent experiences of young bilingual learners : a small scale sociocultural study into the silent period
… sociocultural theory, Vygotsky (1986), Lave and Wenger (1991), Wenger (1998), Rogoff (2003) and Gee (2004) provide the platform upon which the evolution of sociocultural learning theory is applied and tested out in relation to the interconnectedness of the spoken mother tongue, thought, and …
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Not a proper mathematician, like those with a mathematics degree: ‘Subject switchers’ negotiating identities as beginning teachers of mathematics
… within communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998) was used to consider the identities of the participants, drawing on a framework developed from Wenger’s (1998) notion of trajectories. The incoming, transitioning and future-orientated identities of the participants are …
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Creative Practice: How Communities were ‘made’ at Çatalhöyük
… about macro-scale changes in lifeways (Lave and Wenger 1991; Wenger 1998, 2012; Wendrich 2012; Bartlett and McAnany 2000). I contend that creative practice was an important element of egalitarian community maintenance and argue that socio-creativity played an integral role in social organisation …
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Harmony through disharmony in online communication : an investigation of rapport management in discussion forums from a perspective of situated learning
… from the model of situated learning (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998). Herring’s (2004) computer-mediated discourse analysis was applied as the main methodology. I collected 753 threads from Learning Japanese and 832 threads from /r/Languagelearning, which were posted between January 2011 …
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Trainee teachers’ (in-service, post 16yrs) and teacher trainers’ perspectives on the significant transformative experiences that inform transformation from trainee to early career teacher - A Case Study
… the unique communities of practice (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998) the trainee occupies in their journey to teacher. A conceptual model for a Trainee-Led Community of Practice (TLCoP) is recommended, not only for the trainee but led by the trainee to ensure its connectiveness and …
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Discourses of language acquisition and identity in the life histories of four white South African men, fluent in isiXhosa
… well as the social learning theory of Lave and Wenger (1991), support an exploration of how the men acquired this language on the farms in the Eastern Cape where they spent their early years. The identity implications of the men's multilingualism are examined using post-colonial studies of race, …
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Disciplinary Participation and Genre Acquisition of Graduate Teaching Assistants in Composition
… legitimate peripheral participation (Lave and Wenger, 1991; Wenger 1998), this dissertation examines the transition that composition GTAs undergo during their first year of graduate school. Many of these GTAs move from little or no knowledge of Composition as a discipline to teaching their own …
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Learning across time and text: ten child writers in the years from first grade to middle and high school
… 'communities' or 'cultures' of practice (Lave & Wenger, 1991; Brown et al., 1988). The research aim is to build an understanding of how learning takes place through long-term encounters with multiple communities whose boundaries and composition can be at times fluid and permeable. Using life …
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Learning gender: the link with violence in and around schools in Mozambique
… The concept of ‘situated learning’ (Lave and Wenger, 1991) is drawn upon to examine the validity of formal, non-formal and informal processes of learning through which young people learn about gender relations and sexuality in this community in Mozambique. Conceptualisation of learning as a …
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Undertaking hifth at a Qur'anic school for girls in Cape Town: a case study
… 1984), communities of practice (cf. Lave & Wenger, 1991; Wenger, 1998), and a poststructuralist approach to literacy and identity (cf. Norton Peirce, 1995; Norton, 2000). Using these lenses enabled me to identify the language and literacy practices that constitute hifth at this school, as …
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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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Questioning (in) school mathematics : lifeworlds and ecologies of practice
… frames of community of practice theory (Lave and Wenger 1991; Wenger 1998) and the lifeworld by focussing on interactions generated by verbal teacher questioning of the whole class.</p> <p>The thesis reports on an explorative, personal inquiry that complements theoretical reflection with research …
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Viewing the use of open educational resources through a community of practice lens: a case study of teachers' use of the Everything Maths and Everything Science open textbooks
… and to what extent a Community of Practice (Wenger, 2006) has formed around the use of these open textbooks, are informed by a case study, comprising of interviews with nine South African high-school teachers using these open educational resources. The Community of Practice theory provided a …
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Speaker Investment, Social Networks and Oral Proficiency of Heritage and Classroom Learners of Spanish
… of learning (Cole & Wertsch, 1996; Lave & Wenger, 1991; Vygotsky & Cole, 1978). An activation-focused approach posits a pivotal role for language processing in reception and production, emphasizing these as crucial and independent processes of acquisition and maintenance. Activation here is …
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THE CLASSROOM AS INQUIRY LEARNING COMMUNITY: A PRACTITIONER STUDY OF ADOLESCENTS’ DEVELOPING CRITICAL LITERACIES
… by communities of practice theory (Lave & Wenger, 1991) and critical literacy theory (Luke, 2000; Janks, 2010; Comber, 2016), the study asked the following research questions: 1) What characterizes a classroom learning community designed to support adolescents' experiences with inquiry …
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Using collaborative filtering based recommendations to promote the social nature of online learning
… of learning (Vygotsky, 1978; Bandura, 1977; Wenger, 1998), the online teaching environments at many of our colleges and universities still do not fully embraced the importance of social interactions in regards to learning. In response to this problem the Reid Activity Recommendation (REACTIR) …
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A framework based on Gaussian mixture models and Kalman filters for the segmentation and tracking of anomalous events in shipboard video
Anomalous indications in monitoring equipment on board U.S. Navy vessels must be handled in a timely manner to prevent catastrophic system failure. The development of sensor data analysis techniques to assist a ship's crew in monitoring machinery and summon required ship-to-shore assistance is of …
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