This book explores the hidden world of everyday learning in the lives of manufacturing workers from a social perspective. It challenges 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, and large-scale survey materials as well as the microanalysis of human-computer interaction, the analysis follows learning across the spheres of "working-class life" and draws on the author's personal experiences as a factory worker and academic.
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"Sawchuk is able to detect subtle strategies used by workers to increase their own store of cultural capital at the employers' expense. His analysis also succeeds at relating the concerns of Marxists with relations of production to those of postmodernists focused on identity formation and cultural appropriation. The result is a new set of perspectives on the relationships suggested in the title, and a new appreciation of the complexity of those relationships." American Journal of Sociology
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This book explores the hidden world of everyday learning in the lives of manufacturing workers in Canada from a social perspective with a focus on computers. It explodes the myth that this 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.' Drawing on personal experiences as a factory worker and academic, the author offers the most detailed examination of learning amongst working-class people currently available.
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To borrow an image from James Greeno, contrary to the symbol of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker," in which thought, if not learning, is symbolized as an isolated, internalized, and perhaps even painful event, the general goal of this book is to set aside this commonsense view and look at what people really do in their everyday lives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
learning habitus, technological common sense, discretionary learning, overlapping activity systems, computer learning networks, solidaristic networks, informal learning networks, oral artifacts, subordinate standpoints, organizational sequence, smoke shack, class standpoints, home computer ownership, computer learners, formalized learning, auto parts factory, motive level, capitalist labor process, major social divisions, oral devices, tool mediation, everyday learning, adult learning process, proletarian public sphere, mature practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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To borrow an image from James Greeno, contrary to the symbol of Auguste Rodin's "The Thinker," in which thought, if not learning, is symbolized as an isolated, internalized, and perhaps even painful event, the general goal of this book is to set aside this commonsense view and look at what people really do in their everyday lives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
learning habitus, technological common sense, discretionary learning, overlapping activity systems, computer learning networks, solidaristic networks, informal learning networks, oral artifacts, subordinate standpoints, organizational sequence, smoke shack, class standpoints, home computer ownership, computer learners, formalized learning, auto parts factory, motive level, capitalist labor process, major social divisions, oral devices, tool mediation, everyday learning, adult learning process, proletarian public sphere, mature practice Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North America, United States, Interface Report, Pierre Bourdieu, Labour Education Centre, Raymond Williams, Antonio Gramsci, Dorothy Smith New!
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- Vygotskian Perspectives on Literacy Research: Constructing Meaning through Collaborative Inquiry (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Carol D. Lee in Back Matter
- The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau on page 192
- Dialogic Inquiry: Towards a Socio-cultural Practice and Theory of Education (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Gordon Wells in Back Matter
- The Making of the English Working Class by E. P. Thompson on page 11
- Technology in Action (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Christian Heath in Back Matter
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- Vygotsky's Educational Theory in Cultural Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Alex Kozulin in Index
- Dimensions of Adult Learning by Griff Foley in Back Matter
- Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives) by Arnetha F. Ball in Back Matter
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