Practice, Learning and Change
Practice-Theory Perspectives on Professional Learning
Editors: Hager, Paul, Lee, Alison, Reich, Ann (Eds.)
- Provides a rigorous and detailed discussion of practice, a concept that is typically taken-for-granted in educational literature
- The detailed, broadly socio-material, account of practice provides novel insights about learning and change and about the various relationships between these three concepts
- Brings together contributions by key international figures from the different theoretical frames and perspectives on practice and learning
- Diverse sites of professional and workplace learning are deployed to illustrate the practice-learning-change nexus
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The three concepts central to this volume—practice, learning and change—have received very different treatments in the educational literature, an oversight directly confronted here. While learning and change have been extensively theorised, their various contexts articulated and analysed, practice is notably underrepresented. Where much of the literature on learning and change takes the notion of ‘practice’ as an unexamined given, its co-location as a term with various classifiers, as in ‘legal practice’ and ‘teaching practice’, render it curiously devoid of semantic force.
In this book, ‘practice’ is the super-ordinate organising idea. Drawing on what has been termed the ‘practice turn in contemporary theory’, the work develops a conceptual framework for researching learning in, and on, practice. It challenges received notions of practice, questioning the assumptions, elisions, conflations and silences on the subject. In so doing, it offers fresh insights into learning and change, and how they relate to practice. In tandem with this conceptual work, the book details site-ontological studies of practice and learning in diverse professional and workplace contexts, examining the work of occupations as various as doctors, chefs and orchestral musicians. It demonstrates the value of theorising practice, learning and change, as well as exploring the connections between them amid our evolving social and institutional structures.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Practice, Learning and Change
- Book Subtitle
- Practice-Theory Perspectives on Professional Learning
- Editors
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- Paul Hager
- Alison Lee
- Ann Reich
- Series Title
- Professional and Practice-based Learning
- Series Volume
- 8
- Copyright
- 2012
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-4774-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-4774-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-4773-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-017-8516-7
- Series ISSN
- 2210-5549
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVI, 292
- Topics
