Learning to live: expansive learning and mo(ve)ments beyond ‘gang exit’

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    Abstract

    The paper develops a social practice theoretical framework to analyze expansive learning in relation to Danish gang exit intervention. We follow 22-year-old Bilal’s movements and moments in and out of gang communities, and how Bilal, collectively with his mentor and teacher Jesper and other role models is ‘walking and expanding the margins’ of Danish exit intervention. At age 12, Bilal started a trajectory becoming ‘more of’ and later ‘less of’ a criminal gang member. The paper explores new belongings and (lack of) meanings in and across educations, interventions and gang communities, and how Bilal through recognition in his new communities reinvents himself, us and others, moving beyond marginal positions in and across contexts such as Danish people college, the prison, as well as other intervention contexts organized in a collaboration between his local municipality, Jesper and communities with students, professionals and former gang members.
    Translated title of the contribution"At lære at leve": overskridende læring - situationer/bevægelser, der udfordrer og overskrider 'bande-exit'
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationLearning and Becoming in Practice: The International Conference of the Learning Sciences (ICLS) 2014. Volume 1
    Number of pages8
    Place of publicationColorado
    PublisherInternational Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS)
    Publication date2014
    Pages487-494
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2014
    Event11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Learning and Becoming in Practice, ICLS 2014 - Boulder, United States
    Duration: 23 Jun 201427 Jun 2014

    Conference

    Conference11th International Conference of the Learning Sciences: Learning and Becoming in Practice, ICLS 2014
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityBoulder
    Period23/06/201427/06/2014

    Keywords

    • expansive learning
    • Gangs
    • prison
    • social practice theory
    • gang desistance
    • street gangs
    • community based intervention
    • mo(ve)ment methodology
    • embodied feelings
    • longing for belonging

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