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The Symbolic Construction of Community
Tony Blackshaw
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Ethnography for the Internet: Embedded, Embodied and Everyday
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Designing for learning in an open world
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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).
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Intra-community Dissent and Dialogue : The Bombay Parsis and the Zoroastrian Diaspora
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Disjunctured reciprocity: paradoxes of community-school relationship in Nepal
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“We Are mansaf, You Are mulūkhīya”: Symbols and Meanings of Football in Jordan
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Morris dancers, matriarchs and paperbacks: Doing the village in contemporary Britain:
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