Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital

Learning to Belong
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-84706-192-8
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 429 g

Reihe: Continuum Studies in Educational Research

This volume critically explores themes of belonging, learning and community, drawing on a range of research studies conducted with adult learners in formal and informal contexts and employing interdisciplinary theory from education, feminist theory, cultural studies and human geography. Dominant but simplistic and regulatory ideas and practices of learning community in higher education and lifelong learning are critiqued. Instead, Jocey Quinn argues that learners gain most benefit from creating their own symbolic communities and networks, which help to produce imagined social capital. A rich variety of empirical data is used to explore and demonstrate how such imagined social capital works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Quinn, Jocey

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction \ 1. Learning to Belong \ 2. Critiquing Learning Communities and Communities of Practice \ 3. Conceptualising Imagined Social Capital \ 4. Re-imagining Educational Spaces \ 5. The Joy of Knowledge \ 6. Conclusion: Who Can Learn to Belong? \ References \ Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jocey Quinn is Professor at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education at London Metropolitan University, UK, and Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK.