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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
- pp 125-130
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The article was published on 2010-01-01. It has received 944 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Symbolic communication & The Symbolic.read more
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Being “east german” or being “at home in eastern germany”? identity as experience and as rhetoric
TL;DR: The authors explored how identity is based in the mundane and quotidian forms of everyday life leading to senses of belonging that are two aspects of the same phenomenon and pointed out the interplay of these two kinds of belonging.
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The origins and development of community radio in Britain under New Labour (1997-2007)
TL;DR: The origins and development of Community Radio in the United Kingdom under New Labour, focusing on the decade that saw Tony Blair serving as the prime minister between 1997 and 2007, was studied in this article.
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Low-status work consequences on immigrant workers' organization: the cases of five immigrant groups in Athens
TL;DR: In this paper, a micro-sociological analysis focuses on the cases of Egyptian, Albanian, Bangladeshi, Palestinian, and Philippine immigrants in Athens and how the frame of their work and their employment affects their participation in their immigrant work associations.
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Investigating students' experiences of learning English as a second language at the University of Sindh, Jamshoro, Pakistan
TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the new ESL program on students' learning experiences, as well as teachers' perspectives and the broader institutional context are examined. But, no rigorous and independent evaluation of this new programme has been undertaken particularly with respect to students’ learning and experiences.
Making sense of assets: Community asset mapping and related approaches for cultivating capacities
TL;DR: In this article, the authors review some main aspects from asset-based approaches and highlight key strengths and weaknesses for future research/development, drawing on different theoretical traditions and critiques, as well as practices and processes embedded within a broad range of approaches.
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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
TL;DR: This book presents an overview of the challenges faced by ethnographers who wish to understand activities that involve the internet, and explores both methodological principles and practical strategies for coming to terms with the definition of field sites, the connections between online and offline and the changing nature of embodied experience.
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Designing for learning in an open world
TL;DR: This book discusses the role of Mediating Artifacts in learning design, and the needs of pedagogical planners, in the context of the changing digital landscape of education.
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Mingling, observing, and lingering: everyday public spaces and their implications for well-being and social relations
TL;DR: Different users of public spaces attain a sense of well- being for different reasons: the paper calls for policy approaches in which the social and therapeutic properties of a range of everyday spaces are more widely recognised and nurtured.
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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
Emma Waterton,Laurajane Smith +1 more
TL;DR: This article revisited the notion of community within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated, and pointed out the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression.
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What Schools Need to Know About Fostering School Belonging: a Meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used meta-analysis of individual and social level factors that influence school belonging. And the average association between each of these factors and school belonging was meta-analytically examined across 51 studies (N = 67,378).