Learning in Places is a concerted effort undertaken by an outstanding group of international researchers to create a resource book that can introduce academic professional and lay readers to the field of informal learningeducation and its potential to transform present educational thinking. The book presents a wealth of ideas from a wide variety of disciplinary fields and methodological approaches covering multiple learning landscapes in museums workplaces classrooms places of recreation in a variety of political social and cultural contexts around the world. Learning in Places presents the most recent theoretical advances in the field analyzing the social cultural political historical and economical contexts within which informal learning develops and must be critiqued.