Rethinking Contexts for Learning and Teaching

Richard Edwards is Professor of Education at the The Stirling Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK.Gert Biesta is Professor of Education at The Stirling Institute of Education, University of Stirling, UK and Visiting Professor at Örebro University and Mälardalen University, Sweden. Mary Thorpe is Professor of Educational Technology in the Open University Institute of Educational Technology, UK.

• 1.Introduction: Life as a learning context? Part1: Conceptualizing Contexts of Learning 2. Two Texts in contexts: Theorizing learning by looking at genre and activity3. Contexts of teaching and learning: an actor-network view of the classroom 4. Beyond ‘mutual constitution’: looking at learning and context from the perspective of complexity theory 5. Pragmatism’s contribution to understanding learning-in-context Part 2: Cases of Learning and Context 6. The textual mediation of learning in college contexts 7. Mediating contexts in classroom practices 8. Worlds within worlds: The relational dance between context and learning in the workplace 9. Technology-mediated learning contexts 10. ‘The boundaries are different out here’: Learning relationships in community-based further education Part 3:Inferences for Learning and Context 11. The implications of learning contexts for pedagogical practice 12. Implications for researching learning contexts