Learning as Social Practice: Beyond Education as an Individual Enterprise

ISBN-13: 9780367688257 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

Gunther Kress; Staffan Selander

Opis

This book studies learning as a social enterprise, contextually situated, organized and assessed. It gives a broad theoretic grounding for an understanding of learning which goes beyond a common reductionist approach.

Spis treści

In memoriam Gunther Rudolf Kress (1940-2019) Introduction: the social significance of learning 1. Our business is problem-solving: learning, remembering and inscriptions at the it helpdesk 2. Designs for learning – designs in learning 3. A social semiotic perspective on learning: transformative engagement in a changing world 4. Learning as a performative social process. Mimesis, ritual, materiality, and subjectivation 5. The conceptualization of learning in learning research