Over the last two decades or so, a range of social and cultural perspectives on classroom activity have flourished, drawing on anthropology, linguistics, sociology and cultural psychology.  But although they have shifted the focus away from cognitive theories which emphasise individual minds towards the study of identity construction in interaction, their concerns, goals and findings have often differed as have their approaches to youth, interaction and learning. In fact, these different approaches are commonly the result of different emphasizes when exploring the links between on-going local practices and wider social processes of change. This colloquium seeks to explore these differences, and it asks: What do 'youth', ‘identity' and 'learning’ mean in contemporary studies of classroom interaction? What do they contribute to the understanding of education in the contemporary world?

Places are limited, and so if you would like to attend, please fill in the attached registration form and email it as soon as possible to vasileios.batziakas@kcl.ac.uk.