Learning in Everyday Practices

This edited book addresses learning that takes place outside of formal education, embedded in everyday practices across the lifespan. Shedding light on practices that are often overlooked, the chapters explore how children, youth, adults and seniors engage in activities such as travelling, picture making, watching television, drifting, using museums and dealing with family life experiences. The authors approach learning as social, collaborative and interactional, offering rich and detailed examples from Scandinavia. The book contributes to a sophisticated understanding of the conditions, potentials and challenges of learning. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book will appeal to scholars and students of lifelong learning, adult education, childhood and youth studies and public pedagogy, as well as the more general fields of sociology, pedagogy and cultural studies.

Liselott Aarsand is Professor of Adult Learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research encompasses learning, identity work and power relations as manifested in everyday life. She has published widely on learning encounters mediated through popular culture, including parenting and dating, to explore their pedagogical workings.

Pål Aarsand is Professor of Sociology of Education at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His research consists of focused ethnographic studies of children's everyday lives, with particular emphasis on digital technology practices. He has published extensively on children's epistemic activities.

Jorun Merethe Stenøien is Professor of Adult Learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on adults' interest driven and self-directed learning. She has published works examining learning and participation within social contexts and practices, including social movements, traditional crafts and voluntary learning communities.

Christin Tønseth is Professor of Adult Learning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on inclusion and diversity, particularly concerning easily marginalised groups in society. She has published on learning and rehabilitation in prisons, as well as on immigrants' integration into local communities.