Learning, Culture and Social Interaction

This study examines how novice researchers (master's and PhD students) independently initiate knowledge sharing and instructional activities in the midst of everyday research work. Approaching such activities as instances of help recruitment, the study draws on multimodal conversation analysis to de…

The purpose of this study was to explore whether and how students experience mathematics as an aspect of vocational knowing in the Swedish upper secondary Natural Resource Programme, in the orientation of animal care, and in the vocation. Data for the study comprised teacher's documented planning, s…

The internship has become an essential part of university education. In many curricula, internships are a driving force for professional training and theoretical-practical integration. However, other processes and relational dynamics concerning the trainees' experience have an impact on learning. In…

This paper explores students' and recent graduates' experience of boundary-crossing in an internship. It draws on the dialogical approach to focus group to show how young people's reflections on their internship experience suggest the importance of their identity project. In particular, the paper ar…

The paper argues that writers from a variety of socio-cultural and -cognitive perspectives have sought in a number of ways to close the assumed longstanding gap between theory and practice in Professional, Vocational and Workplace Learning (PVWL). In contrast, the paper adopts a different stance: it…

In recent decades, the idea of learning as embedded within communities of practice has inspired research and practice in many areas, among others in the context of workplace learning. In the present study, the collaboration between members of two different communities of practice representing differ…