The concept of communities of practice initially appears in the work of Lave and Wenger (1991) in between their discussions of situated learning. The authors in the study showed important implications for learning and knowledge conducted informally and has developed practical activities. The intention was to show that many of the attributes linked to learning and knowledge were beyond the psychological conception (eminently nature Cognitive)‚ incorporating functions and peculiarities of sociology
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Chapter 5 Sections Section 1. Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview Section 2. Community (Locality) Development Section 3. Social Planning and Policy Change Section 4. Social Action Section 5. Coalition Building I: Starting a Coalition Section 6. Coalition Building II: Maintaining a Coalition Toggle navigation Chapter Sections Section 1. Strategies for Community Change and Improvement: An Overview Section 2. Community (Locality) Development Section 3. Social Planning
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completing your community service work‚ you will write a reflection paper that will give you an opportunity to revisit or look back upon your service activity. Remember five (5) of these hours must be tied to your career pathway. You will need to include each of the guidelines below to complete this paper. All components of this paper need to be typed. 1. Begin your paper with what community service means to you and the importance of community service. 2. Describe the community service you
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problems with community policing. In some ways it turned out good but in some ways it turned out bad. It seems as if most of these have failed. Community policing programs are being embraced by many different police departments all over the world. The police officers that are assigned to community policing are asked to engages in problem solving. In a recent survey of the heads of law enforcement agencies across the country‚ a full 46% reported that they had implemented a community policing program
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What can be done to prevent neglect in our communities? First as a community we need to understand how serious neglect is to a child’s well- being. In the reading of McSherry’s article discussed how a person’s understanding of the serious nature of neglect depended on a person’s level of social work involvement (2007‚ pg. 611). For example a foster care provider sees neglect as less serious than does a Case worker and a layperson sees at as less significant than the foster care provider(2007‚ pg
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Comp. II 11th Feb. 2013 Mr. Wilson Concept of Community College: Then and Now Joliet Junior College‚ opened in 1901‚ is thought to be the first continuously operating public community college in the United States. By 1998 there were 1‚600 community colleges across all 50 states. Since their creation at the turn of the twentieth century‚ community colleges have provided pathways to higher education. It is an undisputable fact the community colleges have consistently increased their enrollment
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Kaysha Whakarau-Twigge 12004012 Community Development: 179.320 Assignment 1: Essay Community Development Word count: 2275 (excluding references). Class coordinator: Polly Yeung Community development is formed when there is a need for change within a group of people. When people come together with the same vision of helping and changing a community’s way of living‚ it is essentially what community development is all about. Community development has many different definitions‚ however
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Community policing is a tool that allows police forces to be in close contact with the community. The purpose for this is to control and reduce crime in an area and to also establish a close relationship between the law and the common person. However due to the large amount of people who are victims of profiling each year‚ tensions are rapidly growing between the police officers and the communities that they serve. Even though the exact number of people who experience this is unknown‚ it is a big
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Community service‚ work done without pay‚ is becoming increasingly familiar to high school students nation-wide. Schools are encouraging student to participate in communities that contribute so much to their public education. However‚ requiring 100 hours of community service is asking too much of students and should be reduced to 50 hours. Students already have their hands full among homework‚ clubs‚ sports‚ and their actual lives. Because the work may not be volunteering if it is required‚ then
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geographically and demographically‚ underneath it all they both have to deal with the same issues of policing. They deal with staffing‚ politics‚ crime‚ crime prevention and the community. This is an in depth look at some of these issues in rural and urban areas. Community Relations In order to understand the difference of police-community relationships between rural and urban areas‚ it is important to know the definition of police. Police is the “the department of government concerned primarily with maintenance
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