Learning Communities and Imagined Social Capital

Learning to Belong

AvJocey Quinn

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-04-01
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:176
Filformat:PDF
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441139061
Förlag:Continuum Publishing Corporation
Serie:Continuum Studies in Educational Research

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Jocey Quinn is Professor of Education at the University of Plymouth, UK, and former Professor at the Institute for Policy Studies in Education at London Metropolitan University, UK. She is also Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. Anthony Haynes is former Chair of the English Association schools committee, former faculty co-ordinator and mentor of PGCE students and NQTs.

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'Professor Quinn brings the spirit of pleasure to an intellectually expansive analysis of belonging and the material needs of the learner. In so doing, this study takes us well beyond the common place in considering the impact of lifelong learning.' Christina Hughes, Professor of Women and Gender and Chairperson in the Department of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

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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