Outside Practices: Learning within the borderlands

Social practice research can be seen to illuminate the practices of marginalised learners in ‘borderlands’, areas outside of formal educational frameworks. This paper examines the issues and challenges of social practice researchers as they explore borderlands logic set against a critique of the pre...

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Main Author:	Sondra Cuban
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	UTS ePRESS 2009-10-01
Series:	Literacy and Numeracy Studies
Online Access:	https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/1274

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spelling	doaj-6901b6ad5ea545a786682a5226fbdded2020-11-25T02:30:52ZengUTS ePRESSLiteracy and Numeracy Studies1441-05591839-29032009-10-01162-110.5130/lns.v0i0.1274830Outside Practices: Learning within the borderlandsSondra Cuban0Lancaster UniversitySocial practice research can be seen to illuminate the practices of marginalised learners in ‘borderlands’, areas outside of formal educational frameworks. This paper examines the issues and challenges of social practice researchers as they explore borderlands logic set against a critique of the prevailing skills-based educational philosophies that dominate in the knowledge-based economies of the US and England. Social practice research highlights meaning-making through a wide-angled view of the learning contexts of marginalised groups. This paper introduces the themes and sets the scene in a series of papers in this volume from leading social practice researchers.https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/lnj/article/view/1274
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description	Social practice research can be seen to illuminate the practices of marginalised learners in ‘borderlands’, areas outside of formal educational frameworks. This paper examines the issues and challenges of social practice researchers as they explore borderlands logic set against a critique of the prevailing skills-based educational philosophies that dominate in the knowledge-based economies of the US and England. Social practice research highlights meaning-making through a wide-angled view of the learning contexts of marginalised groups. This paper introduces the themes and sets the scene in a series of papers in this volume from leading social practice researchers.
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Outside Practices: Learning within the borderlands

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