Situating Learning and Becoming in Practice

• In Event: Roundtable Session 51

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session aims to develop recent conversations in the learning sciences foregrounding a view of learning as becoming. Whereas a focus on “learning” typically draws attention to changes in an individual’s cognitive capacities, a focus on “becoming” draws attention to additional dimensions of change over time, and in particular, to a broader set of social organizational practices in which the person is embedded and through which she or he charts a course. The papers in this session together seek to capture both a sense of how a person makes oneself into a professional of a certain sort, and how one is made into a professional as one traverses a pathway through both the formal and informal experiences associated with education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Learning Sciences

Chair

• Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado - Boulder

Papers

• Learning to Solve Unarticulated Problems in Engineering Education and Work - Alexandra Vinson, Northwestern University; Reed Stevens, Northwestern University

• Working One's Way Into Professional Practice: Expanding Practices, Ethos, and Bodily Orientation in Vocational Training Interactions - Ingrid de Saint-Georges, University of Luxembourg

• "No Unfortunately About This": Positioning and Repositioning in an Engineering Projects Class - Julie Cafarella, University of Colorado - Boulder

• Feminism, Robots, and the Body in Becoming an Engineer - Jacob McWilliams, University of Colorado - Boulder; Kevin O'Connor, University of Colorado - Boulder