Dear Yulia,

I cannot help praising you for the intelligent issue you have introduced. As you know the main objective of engaging communities is to enhance students' achievements, aptitude and interest in the learning process reaping the benefits of the community resources by involving learners and families in the learning process.As McLaughlin (1999) states, Web-based instructional approaches should first of all contextualize the learning experiences by recognizing learners'  true needs( See also Lave's (1991) community of practice model. Alternatively, Kazmer, et.al (2006) provide insightful evidence showing the significance of individual differences as  well as the learning pace of the learners.

Promoting inclusion and diversity

Although not all engagement processes aim to be all-inclusive and representative of diverse groups, when they are intended to be, some groups do experience exclusion.

http://www.odi.org/sites/odi.org.uk/files/odi-assets/publications-opinion-files/7489.pdf

Here's an accepted poster abstract that we are presenting at ACCP is San Francisco this October.

You may wish to take this question to Twitter and/or Facebook as there are a number of groups who are active in the area of your interest who do promote themselves online and from whom you may be able to obtain some ansewrs to your questions.

Deborah,

I didn't hink about. Thank you for the tip!