Introducing the Theory of Practice Architectures

Abstract

This chapter (Sects. 2.1–2.5) introduces the theory of practice architectures, although rather more cryptically than the more extended ways in which it is introduced in other publications. We encounter Baby Miles coming home after his birth in a hospital, and bringing a range of new practices into the household. We find a description of the theory of practice architectures illustrated by Baby Miles participating in the practice of bedtime reading with his parents. We see the song ‘You’re my world’ interpreted through the lens of the theory of practice architectures. We read a letter written by Stephen Kemmis to participants in a forthcoming workshop on the theory. And we find out how Marx’s Third Thesis on Feuerbach inaugurated a view of praxis and practice that lives on in the theory.