Diversity and mobility in education and work present a paramount challenge that needs
better conceptualization in educational theory. This challenge has been addressed by …

2 BIDDLE, SUTHERLAND, & MCHENRY-SORBER disenfranchise local rural residents' self-
determination is often the background against which suspicion or resistance to such outside …

Both cognitive and sociocultural traditions have customarily theorised learning in terms of
processes of progression within single communities. More recently, educational scholars …

This article offers a rethinking of a fundamental area of higher education research and
practice: the concept of belonging. Extending the considerable international research …

This chapter brings together cultural-historical approaches to human development with
interpretive and multi-sited ethnography in order to:(1) develop ethnographic tools that …

This article provides a conceptual account and empirical analyses of the development of
boundary-crossing competence—the ability to function competently in multiple contexts …

In cultural historical activity theory, the entities that make a system are not conceived as
independent but as aspects of mediated relations. Consequently, an individual, a tool, or a …

There has been an increasing trend to promote partnerships for inclusive education that
share responsibility for teachers' and students' learning. Yet, the complexities of …

This chapter focuses on Positioning Theory as both an analytic lens and explanatory theory
to show how learning, and development of identity, evolves through discourse. Positioning …

Whatever we offer in the classroom becomes an opportunity to pursue this longer-term
agenda of identity building; our primary affective engagement is with this agenda, with …