<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/news/brean-prefontaine-katie-hinko-and-collaborators-examine-informal-physics-programs-as-communities-of-practice .aspx" dsn="blogs"><homehero>true</homehero><pubDate>11/12/2021</pubDate><title>Brean Prefontaine, Katie Hinko, and collaborators examine informal physics programs as communities of practice </title><description><p>As part of a large collaboration, PERL graduate student Brean Prefontaine and professor Katie Hinko published I<a href="https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020134" data-cke-saved-href="https://journals.aps.org/prper/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevPhysEducRes.17.020134">nformal physics programs as communities of practice: How can programs support university students’ identities?</a> in Physical Review, Physics Education Research.</p></description><author/><hero-image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2021/BreanKatie%20Informal%20CoP%20PERL.png" alt="Brean Prefontaine, Katie Hinko, and collaborators examine informal physics programs as communities of practice "/></hero-image><image><img src="/_assets/images/news/2021/previewBreanKatie%20Informal%20CoP%20PERL.png" alt="Brean Prefontaine, Katie Hinko, and collaborators examine informal physics programs as communities of practice "/></image></item>