Characterizing discourse among undergraduate researchers in an inquiry-based community of practice

Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 403-417

  Donath, Lori ^a   Spray, Roxanne ^a   Thompson, Nancy S ^a,b,c   Alford, Elisabeth M ^a   Craig, Nadia ^a,c   Matthews, Michael A ^a,c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b Research Communications Studio   (United States)

^c The Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

^d Research Communications Studio   (United States)

^e Research Communications Studio ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Active learning; Communities of practice; Discourse; Distributed cognition; Interaction

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; STUDENTS;

ACTIVE LEARNING; COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE; DISCOURSE; INTERACTIOM;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 27744450438     PISSN: 10694730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2005.tb00868.x     Document Type: Article

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