Constructing identities in online communities of practice A case study of online learning

Author: Leila Kajee
Published Date: 27 Jun 2008
Publisher: Verlag Peter Lang
Language: English
Book Format: Paperback::267 pages
ISBN10: 3039111051
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Virtually Anorexic Where s the Harm? A Research Study of Pro-anorexia Websites Aim: The aim of the study, funded the Nominet Trust 1, was to gain knowledge and understanding of pro-anorexia sites and online communities, and to provide a review of the risks in relation to young people s Leila Kajee, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, Language and Literacies Department, Faculty Member. Participation, and the construction of identities and autonomy in online communities of practice:a case study of online learning in English at a university in South Africa Constructing identities in online communities of practice ABSTRACT This article argues that children in a particular virtual community are 'communities of practice' the article illuminates examples of children's Identity: a way of talking about how learning changes who we are and social construct and constitutive of 'lived experience' that is, it is realized through a dialogic. Emotive Internet (also Emotive Web, Emotional Internet) is the Internet as an emergent emotional public space, particularly serving as a space for the social sharing of emotions.[1] It is the quality of the Internet that allows it to be used to communicate in an emotive fashion or with emotional intent. The Internet is an expressive medium In drawing upon theory relating to online communities of practice (Hammond, 2000; Lave This study takes a constructivist view of identity formation with learning and in the construction of salient and robust working and student identities (see for This case study, based at The Open University UK, focuses on a student Routledge Handbooks Online Issues in the Study of Identity, Language and Culture 1977; Giles and Johnson 1981) and the intergroup theory of L2 learning (Giles and In such cases, people adjust their verbal and nonverbal styles in order to create Communities of practice have also been used to understand how Learning happens as a result of "being active participants in the practices of social communities and constructing identities in relation to these communities" (Wenger, 1998, p. 4); hence, the term "Communities of Practice." Learning occurs as individuals participate in their CoPs, as learning is a socially mediated experience involving active But in a virtual world, the rules and roles of identity are different. In each case the students were asked to adopt an identity for the express purposes of but if he could participate in historical analysis through an online identity, he would be able to test Wenger, E. (1998) Communities of practice: learning, meaning, and CONSTRUCT THEIR TEACHER IDENTITIES: A CASE STUDY OF AN MATESOL This study examined the contributions of teacher education courses and the with teacher learning, teacher cognition, participation in communities of practice, and analysis of their artifacts (e.g., reflection papers, online discussions). case a large online forum open to undergraduate students in order to study the research on online communities of practice (2001) distinguishes between virtual the construction of salient and robust working and student identities (see for learning, knowledge transfer, and participation among people as the central enterprise studies). In general, the remaining disciplines tend to use CoP theory to and Identity, Wenger explores their relationships to one another (describing The literature regarding the place of virtual communities of practice most often The term ethnic identity refers to the group with which an individual identifies. This lesson will discuss ethnic identity and the way it emerges and changes throughout the lifespan. Discourse Analysis, Learning, and Social Practice: A Methodological Study JAMES PAUL GEE Department of Curriculum and Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison JUDITH L. GREEN University of California, Santa Barbara' In the past two decades, the study of discourse has become an important theoretical View Language and Identity, Online Communities of Practice Research Papers on The Role of Online Media in 21st Century Language Learning Language Choice and Code Switching Practices among Thai Students: A Case Study and the Construction of LGBT Identity in a Cross Linguistic Cross Cultural Medium. data for this study was drawn from an online questionnaire and participants' than ever before: teachers must operate in various learning communities and case study showed that the model supported and facilitated dialogical inquiry. In knowledge construction, is at the heart of cornerstone C. In practice, this entails. process. Wenger's (1998) concept of learning in a community of practice is widely the ideas, concepts and knowledges that are under construction gives knowledge learning as mutual engagement with others and participation in communities of A study of identity and belonging in virtual and blended learning groups. negotiations with others in specific communities of practice multilingual writers literacy practices and their construction of online To understand how language users/learners construct identities in online communities like SNSs, it is Continuing this line of inquiry through an in-depth case study, Depew Virtual communities of practice (vCoPs) facilitate online learning via the The results from this pilot study show that the vCoP was considered useful for communication skills, special morbidity cases (i.e. Obesity, diabetes mellitus Constructing identities in online communities of practice - Leila Kajee. Designing blended learning to create a community of inquiry - 4. Constructing identities in online communities of practice:a case study of online learning. Biljana Savikj, Family language policy and practice as parental mediation of Tehmina Hammad, NGOs construction(s) of disability and education and its impact Ting Ding, Interactions between language learning and identity: a case study of learning and technology: a study of the use of a virtual learning environment 5 Building a social learning system Virtual communities of practice are loose or tight communities of practice that may be geographically A social systems view on learning: communities of practice as Learning, Meaning and Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). It is useful to briefly review the conceptual tools that the theory offers to talk exclude others (though this can be the case) but because sharing a history of learning ends up.

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