New spaces for difference : critical studies of learning practices / edited by Marina V. França, Ana Maria R. Gomes, Dorte Kousholt, Jean Lave, Line Lerche Mørck

Format:

Book

Contributor:

França, Marina V., editor.

Gomes, Ana Maria R., editor.

Kousholt, Dorte, editor.

Lave, Jean, editor.

Mørck, Line Lerche, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning strategies--Social aspects.

Learning strategies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"This book brings together an international team of scholars to explore participation, change, and transformative possibilities in everyday life. Drawing on critical ethnographic and participatory research from Brazil, Denmark, and Italy, it examines how people in marginalized positions – socially excluded children and young people, former gang members, rock musicians, bank employees, and sex workers – engage in learning practices across diverse contexts. The chapters challenge conventional notions that oppose equality and difference, offering a critical perspective grounded in social practice theory, critical psychology, and urban anthropology. With a strong focus on coproduced knowledge and learners’ perspectives, the book offers new conceptual tools for understanding learning as a dynamic, relational, and political process rooted in everyday struggles. It is essential reading for researchers, students, and professionals across education, anthropology, psychology, social work, pedagogy, and human geography"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

How it all began : Developing a collaborative inquiry into learning, marginality, and change / Dorte Kousholt, Marina França, Ana Maria R. Gomes, Jean Lave, and Line Lerche Mørck

Learning through differences : The possibilities of everyday life / Ana Maria R. Gomes, Jean Lave, Dorte Kousholt, Marina França, and Line Lerche Mørck

On practice, practitioners, and the learning of futebol in Brazil / Eliene Lopes Faria and Ana Maria R. Gomes

Apprenticeship, conflicts, and learning in bakeries in Denmark / Klaus Nielsen

Co-participative learning through “diverse experts’” relationality : A case study in a major Italian bank / Roberta Bonetti

Songwriting as learning : A dialectical perspective on Danish rock band practice / Lars Brinck

Learning and personal/political transformation : The Danish production school way / Jean Lave

Learning not to belong : Processes of exclusion in Danish schools / Dorte Kousholt

Learning sex work in Brazil across contexts of continuity and difference / Marina França

Learning to become a good Muslim : Transformative mo(ve)ments beyond gang engagement and radicalization in Denmark / Line Lerche Mørck and Iram Khawaja

Participation of children and adolescents in household care : Exploring learning processes in everyday life in Brazil / Adriana de França Drummond and Ana Maria R. Gomes

For all? Co-producing “street-lab,” a local cultural project in Denmark / Line Lerche Mørck and Maja Baunbjerg

Urban space and children’s territorialization in a Brazilian metropolis / Samy Lansky and Maria Cristina Soares de Gouvea

Rethinking problems in Danish schools : Learning from everyday conflicts / Charlotte Højholt and Dorte Kousholt

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 18, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: New spaces for difference

ISBN:

9781009734530

1009734539

9781009734547

1009734547

OCLC:

1596675528

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392258

CIPO000415780

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license