#jean lave

“We are always learning what we are already doing. ... [begins to talk about her field of related critical ethnographers] We're a bunch of critical contrarians who explore learning as embodied practice; refuse to separate knowledge from processes of knowledge production from processes of producing knowledgably skilled practitioners. And we think that all of these relations are made in the political economic and historic relations in which they are a part. That's a tall order. If you do not treat apprenticeship as a thing in itself nor learning as a thing in itself then how do you go about inquiring into that?”

Learning and identity

The concepts of learning and identity are closely interwoven and seen as a social process of making meaning, primly inspired by the situated learning. (Wenger 1998)

Identity is not only about our self image or other people’s image of…

How is it possible to get the best possible life?

It’s a question that interests me in such a way that I think about it each and every day. When I was approximately 11 years old I met a tennis coach whom inspired me to take control in my own life. I experienced that I was able to do much more than I ever imagined and the following years I started reading about personal development. Today I know that I actually didn’t understand much of what I was reading and sometimes I’m still not able to convert what I reed in these kind of books to useful tools in my life. Most important was the process I started and probably never will stop again.

I started a project which is common in todays society. If you look up the word ”project” it means that you do something for the future, and that’s what I did. Danish sociologist Anders Fogh Jensen published his work on what he calls the “project society” in 2009 where he talks about how we form relations, time, space and behavior from the projects we have in life. To get at least some of the explanation we have to get back in time.  In 1900 Fredrich Nietzsche talked about ”the dead of God” because of the fact that humans weren’t created by God became more and more accepted. About 50 years later in 1943 Jean-Paul Sartre said that: “Humans is the only creature on earth that defines them selves through projects.” It’s probably not the whole truth but I feel that it fits me and my generation quite good and Anders Fogh Jensen has gathered the information about the subject at the appropriate time.

Underneath I have listed the tools I use in my biggest project, life.

1. Living

Sometimes I forget to be present in my own life, but I have also felt that no book, speech or  human is able to replace the learning from situations in life. Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger first published their work on ”Situated learning” in 1991. They talk about how kowledge is not assigned to the individual, but learning occurs between relationships and the concrete context that you are in. With other words I try to get in the situations of life were I want to get better and learn from the situations before I start reading, listening or search for advises of any kind.

2. Talking about life

I have always tried to talk with as many people as possible about different situations of life to get a lot of different aspects on how to live and how to react on life. I know that some would think that it’s a matter of attention and maybe it is in some kind of way, but I think I learn a lot from not always talking to my nearest friends and actually already knowing how and what they are going to reply.

3. Read, listen, see

I have always been very inspired by successful people, even dough you don’t know what their life looks like under the scalp of success. Today it’s possible to get access to both books, blogs, interviews, speeches and so on on the internet. Maybe it’s only one tiny thing that I’m able to convert to my own life from reading a book, but for me it’s worth it. Under the section recommendations I have made a list of the most valuable books, blogs and speeches I have used time on.

It’s a never ending journey and I don’t think any human will ever be fully taught in life. I have now started a new project by doing this homepage and writing this blog. I’m going to write about whats on my mind.

Feel free to read, comment or contact me.