Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class LifeCambridge University Press, 3. märts 2003 - 252 pages To date little is known about the everyday activities that make up the majority of people's learning lives. This book presents a critical approach to learning using situated learning and activity theory, drawing on the writings of Marx, Gramsci, Marxist-feminists, as well as the sociology of Bourdieu. Though many have demonstrated that schooling and adult training are deeply affected by issues of social class, this book explodes the myth that everyday learning, despite its apparent openness and freedom, can be understood as class-neutral. Based on life-history interviews, selected ethnographic observations in homes and factories, large-scale survey materials as well as microanalysis of human computer interaction, the analysis explores learning across the various spheres of 'working-class life'. The author draws on his own experience as a factory worker, labour educator and academic to offer the most detailed examination of computer literacy and lifelong learning practice amongst working-class people currently available. |
Contents
A Historical Materialist Examination of Theories | 23 |
Understanding Working | 47 |
Understanding WorkingClass Standpoints | 124 |
Oral Culture Computer Learning and Social | 150 |
Material Barriers in WorkingClass Computer | 173 |
Contradiction and Commodification in Working | 199 |
Common terms and phrases
activity systems activity theory analysis andragogy approach autoworker basic Bourdieu Canadian f capital chapter class dimensions class processes class standpoints commodification communities of practice computer technology computer-based computer-mediated concept context contradiction coworkers critical pedagogy described discourse discussion dominant Engeström everyday learning example excerpt exchange-value experience family1 formal forms guys Gwen historical home computer human important informal learning interaction interview Italian Canadian knowledge labor power labor process Lave and Wenger learners learning habitus learning networks learning process Leont'ev machine operator Marx material mediated notion Oracle oral culture organizational sequence organized packing slip participation people's perspectives Pierre Bourdieu political-economic production provides relations relationship role Sawchuk sequence of action situated learning skills social class sociocultural specific structure subordinate groups talk technological common sense things tion trade union understanding use-value Vygotsky workers working-class computer learning working-class learning working-class standpoint workplace Yeah
References to this book
Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives Vivian Shalla,Wallace Clement No preview available - 2007 |