Learning as Social Practice

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.

Autorentext

Gunther Kress (19402019) was Professor of Semiotics and Education at UCL Institute of Education, UK.

Staffan Selander is Professor Emeritus in Education at the Department of Computer and Systems Sciences (DSV) at Stockholm University, Sweden.

Roger Säljö is Honorary Doctor at the University of Turku, Finland and the University of Agder, Norway and Honorary Professor at the University of Bath, UK.

Christoph Wulf is Professor of Anthropology and Education at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.

Inhalt

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