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Study practices as a response to the issue of sustainability. A case-based inquiry concerning the pedagogy of study practices in an peri-urban context

This project addresses a recent development in educational theory and practice: the growing attention for practices of study. The main hypothesis of this research is that these practices offer a unique but so far not yet investigated response to contemporary societal issues, and more particularly to the challenge of sustainably living together. Study practices take place in formal and non-formal educational settings (e.g. at universities and in community art projects). Being more than practices of knowledge production and different from political activism, they gather a thinking public around a concrete issue and render them response-able. The project explores the specificity and the proper educational dynamics of such practices, outside the context of formal learning, with the help of case studies (e.g. circular economy, short chain food production, alternative housing projects) conducted in an peri-urban context and from a socio-material and practice-theoretical perspective.
Date:1 Oct 2020 →  Today
Keywords:study practice, urban context, educational theory, sustainability, practice-theory
Disciplines:Civic learning and community development