Introduction: why learning lives? Julian Sefton-Green and Ola Erstad; Part I. Changing Approaches to Studying Learning: Identity, Policy and Social Change: 2. Tracing learning and identity across sites: tensions, connections and transformations in and between everyday and institutional practices Hans Christian Arnseth and Kenneth Silseth; 3. Procedural methodologies and digital forms of learning Kirsten Drotner; 4. Thinking about feeling: affect across literacies and lives Jay Lemke; 5. Learning lives in second modernity Lynne Chisholm; 6. Digital dis-connect? The 'digital learner' and the school Ola Erstad and Julian Sefton-Green; Part II. From Learning to Learners: Learning Lives as They are Lived: 7. Expanding the chronotypes of schooling for the promotion of students' agency Antti Rajala, Jaakko Hilppo, Lasse Lipponen and Kristiina Kumpulainen; 8. Discursive construction of learning lives for individuals and the collective Judith Green, Audra Skukauskaite and Maria Lucia Castanheira; 9. Social entrepreneurship: learning environments with exchange value Shirley Brice Heath; 10. The construction of parents as learners about pre-school children's development Helen Nixon; 11. Participant categorizations of gaming competence: Noob and Imba as learner identities Bjorn Sjoblom and Karin Aronsson; 12. Making a film-maker: four pathways across school, peer culture, and community Oystein Gilje; 13. Portrait of the artist as a younger adult: multimedia literacy and 'effective surprise' Mark Evan Nelson, Glynda A. Hull and Randy Young.