Description
Book SynopsisResearching 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 change
- Illustrates the impact of actor-network theory on educational research
- Positions education as a key area where actor-network theory can add value, as it has been shown to do in other social sciences
- A valuable resource for anyone interested in the sociology and philosophy of education
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Foreword viii
Introduction
Tara Fenwick & Richard Edwards ix
1 Devices and Educational Change
Jan Nespor 1
2 Translating the Prescribed into the Enacted Curriculum in College and School
Richard Edwards 23
3 Unruly Practices: What a sociology of translations can offer to educational policy analysis
Mary Hamilton 40
4 ANT on the PISA Trail: Following the statistical pursuit of certainty
Radhika Gorur 60
5 Assembling the ‘Accomplished’ Teacher: The performativity and politics of professional teaching standards
Dianne Mulcahy 78
6 Reading Educational Reform with Actor-Network Theory: Fluid spaces, otherings, and ambivalences
Tara Fenwick 97
Index 117
