I have an article on this topic in the Bankstreet Occasional Papers.  I show how a number of families—the subjects of The Class research Project —adopt and use folk “theories of learning,” and I  consider, in particular, how such theories relate to dominant discourses around learning in school. Second, I  explore how media technologies—and in particular, how the ways that they are purchased and how they are located in the home—also contribute to dominant conceptualizations of learning and at times almost seem to stand for a proxy measure of it. Third, I draw on observations and accounts of how learning is enacted as a discipline and as a habit within the ebb and flow of family life.