Celebrates life and work of British primary headteacher over past decade, using ethnographic conversational data. Stan Fast's intellectual and moral vision, his theories and practices, are set in context of recent (conservative) policy. Although his transformative "hidden curriculum" stressing three C's (caring, cooperation, compassion)…

This article offers three interrelated arguments for the adoption of a cultural approach to the study of learning. It then presents some early analyses of data from a case study of one learning site, concerned with the assessment of learning in the workplace. These analyses show how the shape of the learning site--for example, the nature of…