1st Edition

Actor-Network Theory in Education

By Tara Fenwick, Richard Edwards Copyright 2010
200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

Actor-Network Theory (ANT) has enjoyed wide uptake in the social sciences in the past three decades, particularly in science and technology studies, and is increasingly attracting the attention of educational researchers. ANT studies bring to the fore the material – objects of all kinds – and de-centre the human and the social in educational issues. ANT sensibilities are interested in... Read more
1. A Way to Intervene, Not a Theory of What to Think  2. Knowledge, Innovation and Knowing in Practice  3. (De)naturalizing Teaching and Learning  4. (En)tangling Curriculum-making  5. (Net)working Technologized Learning  6. (Un)making Standards in Education  7. Educational Reform and Planned Change  8. (Ac)counting for Education  9. (De)centring Educational Policy  10. Messy Research  11. Translating ANT in Education

Biography

Tara Fenwick is Professor of Professional Education at the University of Stirling, UK. Her research focuses on knowledge and education in workplace and professional practices, for which she won the Houle Award for Outstanding Contribution to Adult Education Literature, awarded by the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education.

Richard Edwards is Professor of Education at the University of Stirling, UK. He has researched and written extensively on post-compulsory education and lifelong learning and has an international reputation in the field.