Kris Isaacson

• University of Minnesota

This discussion article presents communities of practice (CoPs) and bridging social capital as conceptual frameworks to demonstrate how social media can be leveraged for family nursing knowledge, scholarship, and practice. CoPs require a shared domain of interest, exchange of resources, and dedication to expanding group knowledge. Used strategicall...

Purpose This paper aims to closely examine the features of an urban community-based learning program to highlight the synergy between its educational technology, literate practices and social justice ethos that impact youths’ learning and documentary filmmaking. This examination of a learning setting illuminates the “what is possible” and “how it c...

Allison and Carissa are describing what it is like to be a learner within two different settings, a public, urban high school and an urban com- munity-based organization. If we accept Shernoff ’s (2013) definition of engagement as “the heightened, simultaneous experience of concentration, interest, and enjoyment in the task at hand” (p. 12), then t...