Conditions for building a community of practice in an advanced physics laboratory

We use the theory of communities of practice and the concept of accountable disciplinary knowledge to describe how a learning community develops in the context of an upper-division physics laboratory course. The change in accountable disciplinary knowledge motivates students’ enculturation into a co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paul W. Irving, Eleanor C. Sayre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2014-03-01
Series:Physical Review Special Topics. Physics Education Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.10.010109