Professional Practice and Learning: Times, Spaces, Bodies, Things (Professional and Practice-based Learning)
Nick Hopwood
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Description for Professional Practice and Learning: Times, Spaces, Bodies, Things (Professional and Practice-based Learning)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 392 pages, 26 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JNP; JNT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155. .
This book explores important questions about the relationship between professional practice and learning, and implications of this for how we understand professional expertise. Focusing on work accomplished through partnerships between practitioners and parents with young children, the book explores how connectedness in action is a fluid, evolving accomplishment, with four essential dimensions: times, spaces, bodies, and things. Within a broader sociomaterial perspective, the analysis draws on practice theory and philosophy, bringing different schools of thought into productive contact, including the work of Schatzki, Gherardi, and recent developments in cultural historical activity theory. The book takes a bold view, suggesting practices and ... Read more
This book explores important questions about the relationship between professional practice and learning, and implications of this for how we understand professional expertise. Focusing on work accomplished through partnerships between practitioners and parents with young children, the book explores how connectedness in action is a fluid, evolving accomplishment, with four essential dimensions: times, spaces, bodies, and things. Within a broader sociomaterial perspective, the analysis draws on practice theory and philosophy, bringing different schools of thought into productive contact, including the work of Schatzki, Gherardi, and recent developments in cultural historical activity theory. The book takes a bold view, suggesting practices and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Professional and Practice-Based Learning
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319261621
SKU
V9783319261621
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15
About Nick Hopwood
Nick Hopwood is a Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Technology, Sydney, and a member of the Centre for Research in Learning and Change. He has a strong track record of published work and relevant experience of book authorship. From 2004 to the present, he has published 17 journal articles, 5 book chapters, a joint-authored book (Rickinson, Lundholm ... Read more
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