Objective
The project aims to explore how young girls with different cultural backgrounds learn, negotiate, and reflect upon knowledge within and across a variety of social contexts in their everyday lives. This work uses the term funds of knowledge to understand the trajectories and narratives of the individual learners and how they develop a learning identity and position themselves towards the future.
The overall challenge is to understand the coherence between learning, identity and agency of the individual framed by a biographical approach within a socio-cultural perspective.The data is collected by using participant observation, open-ended interviewing, and using the informants as co-researchers. The cases will be analysed with respect to rich points, resources, tensions and contradictions in the girls’ learning lives which are significant when developing a learning identity and when they position themselves towards the future.
Financing
This project is sponsored by the Norwegian Research Council as a project in the programme “Local literacies and community spaces: Investigating transistions and transfers in the ”learning lives” of Groruddalen”.
Supervisors
Main: Ola Erstad
Co: Hans Chrstian Arnseth
Research category
Basic research