
An Anthropology of Learning
On Nested Frictions in Cultural Ecologies
Cathrine Hasse(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
Published on 20. August 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
IX, 320 pages
978-94-024-0583-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book has one explicit purpose: to present a new theory of cultural learning in organisations which combines practice-based learning with cultural models - a cognitive anthropological schema theory of taken-for-granted connections - tied to the everyday meaningful use of artefacts. The understanding of culture as emerging in a process of learning open up for new understandings, which is useful for researchers, practitioners and students interested in dynamic studies of culture and cultural studies of organisations. The new approach goes beyond culture as a static, essentialist entity and open for our possibility to learn in organisations across national cultures, across ethnicity and across the apparently insurmountable local educational differences which makes it difficult for people to communicate working together in an increasingly globalized world. The empirical examples are mainly drawn from organisations of education and science which are melting-pots of cultural encounters.
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Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Language
English
Place of publication
Dordrecht
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 320 p. 5 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
505 gr
ISBN-13
978-94-024-0583-5 (9789402405835)
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-9606-4
Schweitzer Classification
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12/2014
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€128.39
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Content
Foreword.- 1. Introducing the engaged anthropologist.- 2. Culture as contested field.- 3. Collective and social cultures.- 4. Position matters!.- 5. Social designations of cultural markers.- 6. Learning from culture contrast.- 7. Towards nested engagement.- 8. Future zones of development.- 9. Epilogue. Index.