Search results for "Community of practice"
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Language students and emerging identities
2012
The aim of our article is to study written narratives as a way of expressing emerging identities as second language (L2) users. We compare narratives written by Finnish students of Swedish during their first semester (24 essays) with data collected after the third year of study (9 essays), thereby trying to figure out how the university context has affected the development of the students as L2 users. L2 learning is regarded as a complex project entailing constant identity formation as a plurilingual subject. We see identity as a process, as something flexible, hybrid and multifaceted. Identity evolves in participation and it always includes a temporal dimension. The language learning proce…
Digital participation for an eco-responsive consumption
2013
Heteroglossic and multimodal resources in use : participation across spaces of identification in a Christian lifestyle sports community
2017
This dissertation examines how members of one particular youth community, Christian lifestyle sports enthusiasts in Finland, use language and other semiotic resources to construct participation in their community of practice (CoP). The CoP is organized around the late-modern activity culture of lifestyle sports. The participants also share the Christian faith and in their snowboarding camps organize Bible study sessions and engage in prayer and worship. The theoretical and methodological framework incorporates sociolinguistics, social semiotics, discourse studies and connective ethnography, including the exploration of both the digital and physical spaces of the community. The dissertation …
Social Innovation Toward a Meaningful Everyday Life for Nursing Home Residents: An Ethnographic Study
2021
Background: The literature shows that innovation, which includes culture change, may be important to create a meaningful everyday life for nursing home residents. However, there is a gap in how social innovation practices may contribute to this. The theoretical discourse for the study is person-centered care.Aim: The main aim was to explore phenomena within social innovation that can contribute to improving nursing home residents’ everyday lives.Design and Method: This study uses an ethnographic design with observations and interviews in two nursing homes in Southern Norway.Findings: The main theme was that social innovation within working practices in nursing homes includes phenomena that …
Katsaus aikuisten maahanmuuttajien kielivalintoja koskeviin tutkimuksiin
2017
Tämä tutkimus on suomi toisena kielenä -alan kirjallisuuskatsaus, ja sen tavoitteena on kartoittaa aiemmin tehdyt tutkimukset aikuisten maahanmuuttajien suomen kielen käyttämisestä luokan ulkopuolisissa vuorovaikutustilanteissa. Kirjallisuuskatsauksen tavoitteena on saavuttaa näkemystä siitä, mitä aikuisten maahanmuuttajien suomen kielen käyttämisestä tiedetään tällä hetkellä. Tutkimusta maahanmuuttajien vuorovaikutusmahdollisuuksista työelämässä on jo tehty melko paljon. Maahanmuuttajien tekemien kielivalintojen perustelut ovat moninaisia ja tilannekohtaisia – niihin vaikuttavat niin puhujaan, puhekumppaniin kuin varsinaiseen vuorovaikutustilanteeseen liittyvät seikat. Työelämä näyttää tar…
Mācīšanās un zināšanu apmaiņas prakses starp programmētājiem
2021
Maģistra darba mērķis ir pētīt programmētāju mācīšanās prakses un savstarpējo attiecību nozīmi tajās. Balstoties uz ilgtermiņa programmētāju kopienas etnogrāfisku izpēti, maģistra darbā pētu programmēšanu un programmēšanas mācīšanos kā prakses, kā šīs prakses iederas formālajā un neformālajā izglītības ietvarā un kādas ir kopienas attiecības šo prakšu ietvaros. Pamata datu ievākšanas metodes ir padziļinātas, daļēji strukturētas intervijas, līdzdalīgie novērojumi, kā arī auto etnogrāfisko pierakstu analīze. Šīs prakses tiek kontekstualizētas, izmantojot prakses un reciprocitātes teorētisko perspektīvu. Galvenās novērotās prakses starp programmētājiem ir pašmācība un mācīšanās kopienas ietvar…
Using historical school book excerpts for the education of mature mathematics teachers
2015
International audience; The use of historical and cultural perspectives in university mathematics education can support the development of self-esteem and maturity. It can bring together students with similar interests. We present the concept of a seminar on the analysis of mathematical textbooks and of learning contexts based on the consideration of historical excerpts. Such a seminar can become a starting point for a community of practice with the potential to develop social recognition and personal appreciation of the individual interests and talents of its members and their joint activities.
Social media influencer: a new hybrid professionalism in the age of platform capitalism?
2023
International audience; Chapter 13 Social media influencer: a new hybrid professionalism in the age of platform capitalism? by P. Sedda and O. Husson, analyses the way social media influencers, acting in the context of communities of practice, participate in redefining professionalism and professional practices in marketing and communications fields while promoting social values or advocating for a cause of public interest. Using a methodological approach based on interviews and ethnographic observation, the study considers the influencer as a specific case of “hybrid professionalism” (Noordegraaf 2007) in which quantitative performance criteria, prescribed by platforms, are combined with c…