Learning as Socially Organized Practices: Chinese Immigrants Fitting into the Engineering Market in Canada

Learning as Socially Organized Practices: Chinese Immigrants Fitting into the Engineering Market in Canada

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My research studies immigrants’ learning experiences as socially organized practices. Informed by the sociocultural approach of learning and institutional ethnography, I treat learning as a material and relational phenomenon. I start by examining how fourteen Chinese immigrants learn to fit into the...

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Main Author: Shan, Hongxia
Other Authors: Ng, Roxana
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
Subjects:
immigration studies
adult learning
social construction of skill
social production of culture
communication
licensure
institutional ethnography
Chinese immigrants
organization of engineering work
organization of engineering workforce
engineering in Canada
racialization
sociocultural learning
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19164

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http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19164

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