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Learning Careers: Continuity and change in young people's dispositions to learning
Author(s) -
Bloomer Martin,
Hodkinson Phil
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
british educational research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 89
eISSN - 1469-3518
pISSN - 0141-1926
DOI - 10.1080/01411920020007805
Subject(s) - sociology , psychology , period (music) , subject (documents) , subject matter , pedagogy , social psychology , epistemology , aesthetics , philosophy , library science , computer science , curriculum
Despite an extensive literature on the subject of learning, very little has been written about the ways in which young people's dispositions to learning transform over time. This article draws upon a longitudinal research project which focused on such transformations. The article centres on the case of Amanda Ball and considers the implications which her story holds for our understanding of learning. It is shown that dispositions can transform in a short period of time and that such transformations are often linked, in complex ways, to wider social, economic and cultural contexts.