School is far from being the only place of learning. In children’s lives, family, extra-curricular activities, different sporting, religious, and artistic communitiesgroups of peer, all constitute sites of socialisation and offerlearning opportunities, which can be grouped under the ambiguous term of “informal learning.” For adults, learning occurs on a daily basis – at work, in life, and through their multiple commitments. We study the breadth of these formal and informal learning and the processes – symbolic, material, and social – that contribute to it. In particular, we explore the links between commitment, activity, learning, and development. We emphasise the importance of (re)locating individual learning in its dynamic collective and institutional context.

List of projects
 

Childhood

• Informal learning in a summer out-of-school play-scheme for children to build solar toys

Youth

• Approches psychologiques de situations de malentendu dans des activités de didactique des sciences


• L'imaginaire dans l'enseignement des sciences


• Entre école obligatoire et formation secondaire: comment les jeunes donnent-ils du sens à leur situation dans un dispositif de transition?


• L'école de la nuit: un mix de savoirs

Adulthood

• Projects to be added