Learning and Practice: Agency and Identities
This book has a collection of journal articles that look at the intersection of learning and practice through the lens of sociocultural theory. I read this book as part of my studies for the OU module E846, ‘Curriculum, learning, and society’.
My reading notes
Section 1: Mind and learning
Ch. 1: Curriculum: the case for a focus on learning
Ch. 2: Neuroscience and education
Section 2: Culture, tools, and learning
Ch. 4: Thinking with the tools and institutions of culture
Ch. 5: A sociocultural analysis of organisational learning
Ch. 6: Gender issues in testing and assessment
Ch. 8: Participationist discourse on mathematics learning
Section 3: Identities, agency and learning
Ch. 9: Literacies and masculinities in the life of a young working-class boy
Ch. 11: Gender and subject cultures in practice
Ch. 12: Science education as/for participation in the community
Ch. 13: Growing up digital: how the web changes work, education, and the ways people learn