Cambridge University Press eBooks· 2019· Book chapter
Learning and Everyday Life
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Short summary
This book argues learning is a collective, transformative process embedded in the historically political relations of everyday life, drawing on two decades of ethnographic studies of craft apprenticeship.
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Key points
- Learning is presented as a collective and transformative process, not an individual cognitive one.
- The book emphasizes the integration of learning within the historically political relations of everyday life.
- Ethnographic accounts of craft apprenticeship are used to illustrate the interconnectedness of work and learning.
- The research reflects on the author's two-decade evolution in research practice and the concept of context in learning.
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Abstract
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.
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Field: Human Factors and Ergonomics
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