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Learning as Acquiring a Discursive Identity through Participation in a Community: Improving Student Learning in Engineering Education
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Allie, Saalih; Armien, Mogamat Noor; Burgoyne, Nicolette; Case, Jennifer M.; Collier-Reed, Brandon I.; Craig, Tracy S.; Deacon, Andrew; Fraser, Duncan M.; Geyer, Zulpha; Jacobs, Cecilia; Jawitz, Jeff; Kloot, Bruce; Kotta, Linda; Langdon, Genevieve; le Roux, Kate; Marshall, Delia; Mogashana, Disaapele; Shaw, Corrinne; Sheridan, Gillian; Wolmarans, Nicolette – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2010
In this paper we propose that learning in engineering involves taking on the discourse of an engineering community, which is intimately bound up with the identity of being a member of that community. This leads to the notion of discursive identity, which emphasises that students' identities are constituted through engaging in discourse. This view…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Teaching Methods, Vignettes, Discourse Communities
Raising Participation--Or Furthering Exclusion? Regional Lifelong Learning Strategies under Scrutiny
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Schreiber-Barsch, Silke – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2009
The article brings into question the issue of regional network strategies aiming at implementing structures of lifelong learning in the local context, the so-called learning communities. Facing a broad diversity in their implementation all over Europe, one can observe on the other hand much less effort to discuss conceptual frameworks that deal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cognitive Structures, Learning Strategies, Lifelong Learning
Japan's Poetry Boxers Get Ready to Grumble
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McNeill, David – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article reports that in Japan, a scholar of communications, in the hope of getting people to talk with one another, holds "boxing" competitions in which the blows are thrown verbally, in verse. In a crowded Yokohama hall, boxers file into a ring watched by cheering students and a panel of university professors. Nobody is predicting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Communications, Poetry, Discourse Communities
The Strategic Thinking and Learning Community: An Innovative Model for Providing Academic Assistance
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Commander, Nannette Evans; Valeri-Gold, Maria; Darnell, Kim – Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, 2004
Today, academic assistance efforts are frequently geared to all students, not just the underprepared, with study skills offered in various formats. In this article, the authors describe a learning community model with the theme, "Strategic Thinking and Learning" (STL). Results of data analysis indicate that participants of the STL…
Descriptors: Study Skills, Helping Relationship, Learning Strategies, Data Analysis