Learning, dialectics and subjectivity: Jean Lave in Conversation with Peter Sawchuk
The Centre for Learning, Social Economy and Work (CLSEW) is delighted to welcome Jean Lave for a sit down conversation with С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ Professor Peter Sawchuk to discuss her latest insights into future of approaches to a critical politics of learning as changing practice. The lecture will be chaired by special guest Dr. Michael Bernhard from the Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.
Event Chair: Special Guest Dr. Michael Bernhard (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ the speakers
Jean Lave
The American anthropologist Jean Lave served as a Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. She has studied education and schooling in pre-industrial societies and, through comparisons with the corresponding American conditions, she has pioneered approaches to learning as social participation. Most prominently this approach has been formulated in the famous book Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation which she published together with Etienne Wenger in 1991; a book that, as of 2024, has been cited over 100,000 times by scholars around the world. Among her many awards and honorary degrees, in 2013 she was honored with Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society for Psychological Anthropology.
Peter H. Sawchuk
Peter H. Sawchuk is a professor of Adult Education and Workplace Learning at С»ÆÊéÊÓƵ.
