Exploring ‘learning lives’: community,identity, literacy and meaning |
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| Authors: | Ola Erstad Øystein Gilje Julian Sefton‐Green Kristin Vasbø |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, PO Box 1092, Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway.e‐mail: ola.erstad@ped.uio.no;2. Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.e‐mail: oystein.gilje@ped.uio.no;3. Special Professor, School of Education, University of Nottingham, UK.e‐mail: Julian@julianseftongreen.net;4. Institute for Educational Research, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.e‐mail: k.b.vasbo@ped.uio.no |
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| Abstract: | This article explores the term ‘learning lives’ by reporting on three research projects conducted by members of the Oslo‐based research group TransActions. By stressing the term ‘learning lives’ within a range of social ‘educational’ contexts, the article aims to look at learning within and across different learning sites exploring the positioning and repositioning of learner identity across these different ‘locations’. We emphasise how the individual learner relates to other people and objects, drawing on deeper trajectories or narratives of the self as it exists within and outside the immediate learning contexts. We pay attention to processes occurring between people which we find significant for the individual's identity, literacy and learning. By doing so we hope to make explicit the mobilisation of resources within and across specific contexts, in the ‘learning lives’ of Norwegian youngsters. |
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| Keywords: | learning lives identity community digital literacy multimodality |
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