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Allen, Carrie D.; DiGiacomo, Daniella; Van Horne, Katie; Penuel, William R. – Digital Education Review, 2018
The phenomenon of "brokering"--or connecting youth to present or future opportunities--is now well known in the field of learning and youth development as an integral part of how and why youth pursue and remain in particular interest-related learning opportunities. More recently, the related term sponsorship refers to the multiple ways…
Descriptors: Youth, Student Interests, Case Studies, Interviews
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Penuel, William R.; DiGiacomo, Daniela K.; Van Horne, Katie; Kirshner, Ben – Frontline Learning Research, 2016
This paper presents a social practice theory of learning and becoming across contexts and time. Our perspective is rooted in the Danish tradition of critical psychology (Dreier, 1997; Mørck & Huniche, 2006; Nissen, 2005), and we use social practice theory to interpret the pathway of one adolescent whom we followed as part of a longitudinal…
Descriptors: Social Theories, Learning Theories, Learning Processes, Adolescent Development