1st Edition

Human Activity, Social Practices and Lifelong Education Francophone Perspectives

Edited By Marc Durand Copyright 2015
138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

128 Pages
by Routledge

This volume presents a scientific and practical trend in lifelong education, which focuses on "human activity". This trend is particularly apparent in French speaking countries where a seminal tradition of ergonomics, born in the middle of the 20th century, produced studies about work and workers’ activity in various contexts. Results demonstrate that working activity, firstly, is always complex,... Read more

1. Introduction: Human activity, social practices and lifelong education: an introduction Marc Durand  2. How unethical actions can be learned: the analysis of the sporting life courses of doping athletes Denis Hauw  3. Gift and transmission in teachers’ lifelong learning: what remains of those who leave Pierre Imbert  4. Construction of dispositions and development of human activity: a theoretical framework illustrated by the case of a novice manager Marc Durand  5. Activity development and invention in the making and use of technical objects in the workplace Annie Goudeaux  6. When design of everyday things meets lifelong learning…Germain Poizat, Yvon Haradji and David Adé  7. Stability and transformation in configurations of activity: the case of school teaching in France and Mexico Philippe Veyrunes and Frédéric Yvon  8. Learning the practice, learning from the practice: tourist practices and lifelong education Gilles Brougére  9. Affording learning environments in workplace contexts: an interactional and multimodal perspective Laurent Filliettaz

Biography

Marc Durand is professor of adult education at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. His research topics are on work analysis and vocational education in various professional contexts (health, education, leisure and sport, industry, craftsmanship, art…). He develops a perspective of cognitive anthropology of human activity. Prof Marc Durand is a member of the International Journal of Lifelong Education editorial board.