Learning and Everyday Life - Access, Participation, and Changing Practice

An incisive study of situated learning, analyzed through a critical theory of social practice as transformational change in everyday life.

List of contents

Introduction: the long life of learning in practice; 1. The savagery of the domestic mind; 2. The problem of context and practices of decontextualization; 3. Ethnographies of apprenticeship; 4. Teaching as learning in practice; 5. Production schools; 6. Everyday life: logical operator, social zone or social practice; 7. Situated learning: historical process and practice; Afterword: learning together: new challenges and ethnographic scenarios Ana Maria R. Gomes.

About the author

Jean Lave is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She is a social anthropologist and critical theorist. Her books include one of the most cited works in the social sciences Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation (with E. Wenger, Cambridge, 1991) as well as the prize winning Understanding Practice (with S. Chaiklin, Cambridge, 1993).

Summary

An incisive study of situated learning as transformational change in everyday life, aimed at students and researchers in the social sciences, social anthropology, anthropology of education and social theory. Lave's critical theory of social practice takes assumptions about learning as key to theory and the practice of social change.

Product details

• Authors: Ana Maria R. Gomes, Jean Lave, Jean (University of California Lave, Lave Jean
• Assisted by: Ana Maria R. Gomes (Afterword)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2019
• EAN: 9781108727433
• ISBN: 978-1-108-72743-3
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 10 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Educational psychology, Social and cultural anthropology