Book contents
- New Spaces for Difference
- New Spaces for Difference
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Cover Image
- Part I Spaces for Difference
- Chapter 1 How It All Began
- Chapter 2 Learning through Differences
- Part II Learning Differences in Contemporary Cultural Practices
- Part III Learning from the Margins in Cross-Contextual Struggles
- Part IV Contradictory Co-production of Everyday Life with Children
- Index
- References
Chapter 1 - How It All Began
Developing a Collaborative Inquiry into Learning, Marginality, and Change
from Part I - Spaces for Difference
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 August 2026
Book contents
- New Spaces for Difference
- New Spaces for Difference
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Cover Image
- Part I Spaces for Difference
- Chapter 1 How It All Began
- Chapter 2 Learning through Differences
- Part II Learning Differences in Contemporary Cultural Practices
- Part III Learning from the Margins in Cross-Contextual Struggles
- Part IV Contradictory Co-production of Everyday Life with Children
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter introduces our collaborative project, born from workshops that brought Danish and Brazilian researchers together in Belo Horizonte (2015) and in Copenhagen (2017). It has evolved further through years of dialogic exchanges and shared theoretical exploration of research on learning from the perspective of the learners and from marginalized positions and communities. As the chapters of the book took shape, they created the scope of the book project focused on urban life and struggles concerning marginality, conflicts, and inequalities. We chose to work together in part to explore how our national, theoretical, and methodological traditions both inspire and limit the research we do, as we seek answers to questions about “what learning is for” in struggles for social change and social justice. The introduction highlights how the collaborative process itself became a form of learning, shaping our theoretical development in dialogue with each other and with the ethnographic studies.
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- New Spaces for DifferenceCritical Studies of Learning Practices, pp. 3 - 18Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2026
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