This course, Learning and practice: Agency and identities, introduces you to a sociocultural approach to understanding and analysing learning in educational institutions, the home and the workplace.

Course learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- understand more fully the view of learning as a social, not an individual, phenomenon

- develop some conceptual tools for analysing learning

- understand more fully what supports learning and what creates barriers to learning and its assessment

- understand some of the implications of this view for supporting learning in educational institutions and in the workplace.