Rethinking contexts for learning and teaching : communities, activities and networks

Title:

Rethinking contexts for learning and teaching : communities, activities and networks / edited by Richard Edwards, Gert Biesta and Mary Thorpe.

Format:

Book

Published:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2009.

Language:

English

Description:

xi, 177 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Other contributors:

Edwards, Richard, 1956 July 2- Biesta, Gert. Thorpe, Mary.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Introduction : life as a learning context? / Richard Edwards
• Texts in contexts : theorizing learning by looking at genre and activity / David R. Russell
• Contexts of teaching and learning : an actor-network view of the classroom / Steve Fox
• Beyond "mutual constitution" : looking at learning and context from the perspective of complexity theory / Tamsin Haggis
• Pragmatism's contribution to understanding learning-in-context / Gert Biesta
• The textual mediation of learning in college contexts / Candice Satchwell and Roz Ivanǐ
• Mediating contexts in classroom practices / Carey Jewitt
• Worlds within worlds : the relational dance between context and learning in the workplace / Lorna Unwin, Alison Fuller, Alan Felstead, Nick Jewson, and Kostas Kakavelakis
• Technology-mediated learning contexts / Mary Thorpe
• "The boundaries are different out here" : learning relationships in community-based further education / Beth Crossan and Jim Gallacher
• The implications of learning contexts for pedagogical practice / Mary Thorpe and Terry Mayes
• Implications for researching learning contexts / Kate Miller.

Subject headings:

Learning--Philosophy. Adult learning.

ISBN:

0415467756 (hardcover) 9780415467759 (hardcover) 0415467764 (softback) 9780415467766 (softback) 0203881753 (e-book) 9780203881750 (e-book)