Podcast - Interview with Anna Sfard

During the 14th - 17th of November PhD Students and researchers from e-learning lab attended a PhD course called "Perspectives on Identity in Learning and Education Research". This course was co-organised by three local doctoral schools; The International Doctoral school of Technology and Science, The Doctoral School of Human Centered Informatics (HCI) and The Doctoral school of Education, Learning and Philosophy.

During the course Thomas Ryberg had the opportunity to interview the invited guest speakers about their views on the notion of identity within learning and educational research. The first interview was with Anna Sfard who at present holds a joint appointment in Michigan State University in US (as Lappan-Phillips-Fitzgerald Professor of Mathematics Education) and in the University of Haifa, Israel.

During the interview Anna talks about her research on identity and two metaphors on learning (an acquisition and a participation metaphor). Further, she describes how she in her research has adopted the notion of 'identification', rather than speaking about 'identity'.