Learning Culture and Social Interaction

期刊简介：Much of the most important learning happens through social interaction. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction is an international journal devoted to the publication of high-quality research on learning within, and through, social practices. Its particular focus is on understanding how learning and development are embedded in social and cultural activities, and how individuals and collective practices are transformed through learning. Such understanding requires a careful analysis of learning in social context, and of the communicative processes involved. In-depth studies of interaction in schools (in various subjects and settings), universities, work-places, voluntary organizations, public agencies, hospitals, laboratories and other institutional settings will be welcome, as well as studies of informal settings such as everyday conversations, play settings, youth clubs, games and other cultural practices. Longitudinal studies of learning trajectories are relevant as are analyses of contexts and interactional patterns that hinder learning. The important point is that the relationships between cultures, social interaction and learners (and teachers) are in focus. The term 'interaction' includes forms of communication which take place through technologies of various kinds (telephone, the Internet, presentation technologies and so on). Interaction between people and artefacts, insofar as they address learning, are also relevant. Thus, the focus is not exclusively on face-to-face interaction. Also, issues of collective forms of learning characterizing systematic change, institutional development and communities of practice are central for the journal. The journal is multidisciplinary and invites scholars from relevant disciplines including psychology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, communication studies and all areas of educational research. Data may come from ethnographies, experimental approaches, intervention studies, case studies, interviews, questionnaires, self-reports, cross-cultural comparisons, archives etc. Articles of different kinds will be welcome: reports of empirical research, theoretically orientated analyses, contributions to method, literature reviews, meta-analyses of research etc. There will be no restrictions when it comes to age levels or social settings. A strong expectation will be that authors write clearly and accessibly for an international and multidisciplinary audience.

【译文】许多最重要的学习都是通过社交互动发生的。 《学习、文化和社会互动》是一本国际期刊，致力于发表关于社会实践中和通过社会实践学习的高质量研究。它的特别重点是理解学习和发展如何融入社会和文化活动，以及个人和集体实践如何通过学习而改变。这种理解需要仔细分析社会背景下的学习以及所涉及的交流过程。欢迎对学校（不同学科和环境）、大学、工作场所、志愿组织、公共机构、医院、实验室和其他机构环境中的互动进行深入研究，以及对非正式环境（如日常对话、游戏环境、青年俱乐部、游戏和其他文化习俗）的研究。对学习轨迹的纵向研究是相关的，对阻碍学习的背景和互动模式的分析也是相关的。重要的一点是文化、社会互动和学习者（和教师）之间的关系是焦点。 “交互”一词包括通过各种技术（电话、互联网、演示技术等）进行的通信形式。人与人工制品之间的互动，就其涉及学习而言，也是相关的。因此，重点不仅仅在于面对面的互动。此外，以系统变革、制度发展和实践社区为特征的集体学习形式问题也是该杂志的核心。该杂志是多学科的，邀请来自相关学科的学者，包括心理学、人类学、语言学、社会学、传播研究和教育研究的所有领域。数据可能来自民族志、实验方法、干预研究、案例研究、访谈、问卷、自我报告、跨文化比较、档案等。欢迎不同类型的文章：实证研究报告、理论分析、方法贡献、文献综述、研究荟萃分析等。年龄水平或社会环境不受限制。我们强烈期望作者能够为国际和跨学科的读者提供清晰易懂的写作。