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This book offers an introduction to actor-network theory for educators to consider in three modes. One mode is the introduction of concepts, approaches and debates around actor-network theory as a research approach in education. Another mode is a showcase of educational studies that have employed ANT approaches in classrooms, workplaces and community settings, drawn from the UK, USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. These work with ANT in highly diverse ways, often bending and twisting ANT ideas to better approach the educational question at hand whether it focuses on policy critique, curriculum inquiry, engagements with digital media, change and innovation, issues of accountability, or exploring how knowledge unfolds and becomes materialized in various settings

Thank you for sharing this; I just pre-ordered it!!

Los Angeles Clinical PhD: A Scholar-Practitioner Program The clinical PhD training program on Alliant's Los Angeles campus is based on a scholar-practitioner model where practice and scholarship receive equal emphasis. The program is based on the principle that clinical psychologists have a responsibility to work to ameliorate psychological suffering and facilitate psychological well-being through both basic and applied research and interventions that evolve from scholarly work relevant to societal needs. An underlying philosophical assumption of the program is that there is a need for innovative scholarship that provides a foundation for the development of interventions to meet the needs of diverse and underserved populations.

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"Write every day" is fabulous advice. But, how do you actually do it? That was my question for a long time before I finally convinced myself to give it a try.

Professional development for teachers in a CoP

to transform existing teacher education programs' course contexts into communities of learners that link the learning of preservice teachers with the learning of experienced teachers and teacher educators

This looks great, Brenda, but I can't access it. :(

Just thought this was interesting to share.

Not sure what she meant at the end about "there is no escape" once you begin teaching and learning online?? But agree with the main point about how teaching and learning is tied to economics (resources) and purpose. And, Barb, thanks because I became a member in the Higher Ed Guardian.

Bereiter's is the third model of networked learning that Hakkarainen et al compare in their book "Communities of Networked Expertise" along with Nonaka & Takeuchi and Engestrom

Found this gem in Sylvia Currie's "My Practice" discussion. Lots of good stuff in here.

The long awaited book where social anthropologist Jean Lave shares her research study from Liberia, of tailor boy apprenticeship (where they learn not from their master directly, but from being inlcuded in everyday chores and observing their peer apprentices, a litte more advanced than themselves). JeanLve spent considerable time on location doing this study. In 2000 she was a guest teacher at the University of Copenhagen where I had the pleasure to follow a dozen lectures. With my study companion's courage, we were allowed to have a one hour long conversation with Jean Lave, planned as an interview but never published, to my regret. The book can be purchased as an e-book for 30 days, at the reasonable price of $6, or full price $27 (same as in print).

Excellent article that provides Effective Strategies for the Stages of Learning/Adoption

This links goes to the Methods section, but there are phrases for all sections of a proposal/thesis/dissertation.

Etienne and Bev's site

Interesting website -- details seem elusive, though. This particular page mentions an author "Chris Dede" who I think is the same author Brenda sent me an article by that she found very useful.

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world-and why it is so important.

Disney, Militarization and the National Security State After 9/11 Tuesday 23 August 2011 by: Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | Book Excerpt

Blackboard's rebranded Elluminate

Interesting!

Written awhile ago, but some basics from a practical point of view about how to create community online

The Doctoral Colloquium is a forum in which Ph.D. students meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced CSCW researchers and practitioners.

Now this looks very interesting and I have always wanted to go to Seattle!

Excellent blog post about how to deal with comments for articles submitted to peer reviewed journals. Tucking this away for the day when we start writing these things.