Last week I attended the first meting of The Nordic Research Network on Learning Across Contexts (NordLAC). The topic of this meeting was to explore identity and contexts for learning. My talk aimed to: reflect on the current interest in learning out-of-school (politics & policy); explore the intersections of policy and research; raise some methodological issues relating to the challenge of researching out-of-school. I tried to do this by bringing together some recent work from the Oslo based Learning Lives project , ongoing work on The Class and my MacArthur MacReport on learning in not-school situations (currently in production).
Dear Sefton-Green,
I wish I could attend to your meeting. I wonder how we can define out-of-school environments. I mean we generally define as an environment where an individual has a greater autonomy and freedom to participate in, learn from and the like. But how can we really define them? Your comment would be appreciated.
Warmest regards,
Eray