Identity Community and Learning Lives in the Digital Age

Recent work on education identity and community has expanded the intellectual boundaries of learning research. From home-based studies examining youth experiences with technology to forms of entrepreneurial learning in informal settings to communities of participation in the workplace family community trade union and school research has attempted to describe and theorize the meaning and nature of learning. Learning Lives offers a systematic reflection on these studies exploring how learning can be characterized across a range of whole-life experiences. The volume brings together hitherto discrete and competing scholarly traditions: sociocultural analyses of learning ethnographic literacy research geo-spatial location studies discourse analysis comparative anthropological studies of education research and actor network theory. The contributions are united through a focus on the ways in which learning shapes lives in a digital age.