Using the communities of practice framework to examine an after-school environmental education program for Hispanic youth

Environmental Education Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 217-233

  Aguilar, Olivia M ^a   Krasny, Marianne E ^b  

^a DENISON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

After school program; Communities of practice; Learning theories; Multicultural; Situated learning; Sociocultural theories

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954507683     PISSN: 13504622     EISSN: 14695871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2010.531248     Document Type: Article

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