The class as a review of the literature (about 75% of the major subtopics within research so far)

1. To recap: determinately moving away from the problematics of schooling, to the problematics of making a life with others.  Thus an emphasis on:
   1. Locations, institutions and (speech) acts:
      1. Cremin on what: "knowledge, attitudes, values, skills, or sensibilities"
      2. Cremin on acts: "transmit, evoke, or acquire"
      3. Cremin on people: "institutions [as well as] parents, peers, siblings, and friends"
      4. Cremin on locations and institutions: "families, churches, libraries, museums, summer camps, schools, and colleges"
      5. Varenne on acts: "figure out" which involves "notice, analyze, investigate, convince, constitute, enforce, discipline"
   2. The ongoing discovery of new forms of ignorance triggering a collective search for some solution
2. One step: documenting this search by shifting to temporality, sequentiality and ongoing improvisation in the production of the future (from "who, what, where and how" to "when") and thus:
   1. Educating in life: ethnographies of challenging new normals (a collective book). New York: Routledge. 2019
   2. opening to further research on matters like:
      1. overlapping "communities" (polities) of practice -- e.g. in a hospital possibly leading to new approaches to the study of schooling.
      2. resistance of the body (walls, institutions, etc.) to local construction -->possibly leading to new approaches to the study of "disability" (taking seriously other bodies/other abilities)
      3. imperial governmentalities --> possibly leading to new approaches to the study of the relation between institutionalized political power and local activity
      4. .....
      5. .....
   3. practically, by following the indexes
3. Current exploration: focus on "making a life" (not "learning" or "teaching") and perhaps emphasizing the possibility of alternates rather than the fatefulness of constraints
   1. Making a life in the other city (Varenne, forthcoming)
      1. Preface
      2. Optimistically
         1. On the way home or, “When is m’I culture?” (December 28, 2010)
         2. Forms, affordances, innovation: the making of a cultural fact (August 8, 2016)
         3. Harmony? (March 25, 2026)