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Gravett, Sarah; Petersen, Nadine – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2007
The purpose of the research reported on in this article was to explore how newcomer staff members to the academy experience their entry into the academic discourse community. To this end, a generic qualitative research design was implemented to understand the meaning newcomers have constructed about academia and how they make sense of their…
Descriptors: Research Design, Educational Environment, Discourse Communities, Data Analysis