Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory

✍ Scribed by Michael A. Peters(eds.)

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 141
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Researching Education Through Actor-Network Theory offers a new take on educational research, demonstrating the ways in which actor-network theory can expand the understanding of educational change.

An international collaboration exploring diverse manifestations of educational changeContent:
Chapter 1 Devices and Educational Change (pages 1–22): Jan Nespor
Chapter 2 Translating the Prescribed into the Enacted Curriculum in College and School (pages 23–39): Richard Edwards
Chapter 3 Unruly Practices: What a sociology of Translations can Offer to Educational Policy Analysis (pages 40–59): Mary Hamilton
Chapter 4 ANT on the PISA Trail: Following the Statistical Pursuit of Certainty (pages 60–77): Radhika Gorur
Chapter 5 Assembling the ‘Accomplished’ Teacher: The Performativity and Politics of Professional Teaching Standards (pages 78–96): Dianne Mulcahy
Chapter 6 Reading Educational Reform with Actor?Network Theory: Fluid Spaces, Otherings, and Ambivalences (pages 97–116): Tara Fenwick

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