Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international
researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic professional and lay readers
to the field of informal learning education and its potential to transform present educational
thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide variety of disciplinary fields and
methodological approaches covering multiple learning landscapes - in museums workplaces
classrooms places of recreation - in a variety of political social and cultural contexts
around the world. Learning in Places presents the most recent theoretical advances in the field
analyzing the social cultural political historical and economical contexts within which
informal learning develops and must be critiqued. It also looks into the epistemology that
nourishes its development and into the practices that characterize its implementation and
finally reflects on the variety of educational contexts in which it is practiced.
