Learning and everyday life : access, participation and changing practice / Jean Lave, University of California, Berkeley ; afterword by Ana Maria R. Gomes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lave, Jean, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational anthropology.

Learning--Social aspects.

Learning.

Educational sociology.

Physical Description:

vi, 187 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Written by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, apprenticeship and everyday life, through a critical theory of practice. Each chapter explores in different ways the proposition that learning is a collective, transformative process of change in the historically political complex relations of everyday life. At the same time, the book demonstrates the changing character of Lave's own research practice over two decades. Lave addresses work practices and everyday life and discusses the problem of context and decontextualization. Analyzing two decades of ethnographic studies of craft apprenticeship, she explores teaching as learning and examines the reciprocal effects of theories of everyday life and learning.

Contents:

The savagery of the domestic mind

The problem of context and practices of decontextualization

Ethnographies of apprenticeship

Teaching as learning in practice

Production schools

Everyday life : logical operator, social zone or social practice

Situated learning : historical process and practice.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-184) and index.

ISBN:

9781108480468

1108480462

9781108727433

1108727433

OCLC:

1050278947