Endnotes
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- Wenger , E. 1998 . Communities of Practice: Learning, Meaning and Identity. , New York : Cambridge University Press .
- Seifert , K. L. 1999 . Constructing a Psychology of Teaching and Learning , Boston : Houghton Mifflin .
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