NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Vanderbilt Learning Sciences Institute will
host the first installment of its new guest lecturer series Thursday,
Feb. 26, at 4 p.m. with University of California-Berkeley professor of
education and geology Jean Lave. Lave will speak on how people learn
during their everyday lives, a theory referred to as
"learning-in-practice."
Lave has conducted a wide scope of research to explore how we learn
during our daily lives, including apprenticeships among Vai and Gola
tailors in Liberia, everyday math practices in Orange County, Ca., and
how elite British port wine merchant families in Portugal maintain
their "Britishness."
Lave’s lecture, "Learning as Changing Practice," will discuss a
learning theory that insists learning and everyday life cannot be
separated.
Lave is the author of several books, including Cognition in
Practice: Mind, Mathematics and Culture in Everyday Life; Situated
Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation; Understanding Practice;
and History in Person: Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice,
Intimate Identities. She is currently working on a book titled Changing
Practice.
The Vanderbilt Learning Sciences Institute brings together
researchers from across the University who are exploring how people
learn, effective teaching techniques, curriculum and education policy.
For more information on the institute, visit www.vanderbilt.edu/lsi.
The lecture and a reception will take place in the Wyatt Center at Peabody College and are free and open to the public.
Media contact: Melanie Catania, (615) 322-NEWS
Melanie.catania@vanderbilt.edu