In COP theory, this term encompasses young masters with apprentices, and masters.
What are Newcomers & Old-timers?
100
Populations of individual components that are all working toward the same/similar goals.
What is a network?
200
This teaching approach has helped remove students from the “spectator” role and has provided them with the opportunities to use their course-based research.
What is public sphere pedagogy (PSP)?
200
The individual actors within a network.
What are nodes?
200
This term means to literally stand on the threshold or to be in the “doorway” between a prior identity and a new identity.
What is liminal (liminality)?
300
Reconstruction of a person's autobiographical past and imagining their future, which provides their life with some degree of unity, purpose, and meaning.
What is narrative identity?
300
The relationships between actors.
What are ties?
300
This term describes when a person uses past experiences to define specific associations.
What is negotiation of meaning?
400
These create short paths between any two nodes in the system.
What are hubs?
400
This term was created to replace the description of late adolescence, young adulthood, and transitional adulthood.
What is emerging adulthood?
500
This term means that learning is not merely a condition for membership, but is itself an evolving form of membership.
What is legitimate peripheral participation?
500
Tight collection of nodes joined by short chains or paths in the network.
What are clusters?
500
In American popular media, this term has been coined to describe the alleged difficulties experienced by emerging adults as they try to find a place in the adult world.