In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger argued that learning is ‘situated’ because it is largely a product of the environment in which it occurs and takes place most effectively through participation with experts and peers in a ‘community of practice.’
In a series of brilliant readings, Greenblatt shows how identity is constructed in the work of Shakespeare,... Læs mere
Much of what we now know about the influence of early childhood environments on delinquency and anti-social behavior can be traced to Bandura’s ground-breaking 1973 book. He uses the subject of aggression to demonstrate the usefulness of social learning theory.
"In his highly influential 1996 book, Huntington offers a vision of a post-Cold War world in which conflict takes place not between competing ideologies but between cultures.
Sheila Fitzpatrick’s Everyday Stalinism rejects the simplistic treatment of the Soviet Union as a totalitarian government that tightly controlled its citizens.
Classical economics suggests that market economies are self-correcting in times of recession or depression, and... Læs mere
Ways of Seeing is a key art-historical work that continues to provoke widespread debate. Berger first examines how our assumptions affect how we see a... Læs mere
In Situated Learning, Lave and Wenger argued that learning is ‘situated’ because it is largely a product of the environment in which it occurs and takes place most effectively through participation with experts and peers in a ‘community of practice.’
On Photography brought photographic theory into the university classroom with its staunch defense of the medium as art and inspired a new wave of Marxist... Læs mere
200 years after it was written, Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations is still debated by governments internationally. Smith argued that... Læs mere
Roland Barthes’s 1967 essay, Death of the Author, argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author into textual interpretation because of the resultant limitations imposed on a text.
In Citizen and Subject, Mahmood Mamdani challenges dominant views of the crisis of postcolonial Africa, particularly that the problems the continent faces are home grown. Citizen and Subject insists that the current crisis is the institutional legacy of colonialism.